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Mitt Romney has Clint Eastwood and that now-famous empty chair on his side. But the Republican presidential nominee isn't the only one getting entertainment industry shoutouts this week.

Readers and listeners complain about bias in individual segments of NPR's coverage, but Managing Editor David Sweeney says overall balance in the aggregate is what counts. We listened to a morning news meeting to see how the NPR sausage gets made.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Tampa International Airport officials faced a major challenge Saturday--not a huge number of people leaving town after…

Among the places getting a facelift in advance of the Republican National Convention is one location that most hope doesn't get a lot of use--Hillsborough…

Occupy Wall Street says it will protest at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., next week as a run-up to mass demonstrations planned for its Sept. 17 anniversary.

WUSF Public Media mounted an unprecedented effort to cover the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa.Here are some of the photos from behind the…

The 12-foot-high steel barricades are gone. "Romneyville" is gone too, with some trash and ruts in the grass the only reminder of the protester's tent…

It may be a little unfair - comparing a hurricane day to an annual Labor Day festival. However, downtown Tampa was deserted the Monday before the…

The Chick-fil-A/gay marriage debate has hit the Tampa campus of USF. Humanities professor Scott Ferguson has started a petition on change.org to remove…

All week long, Florida Democrats have heard how important their state is in the coming election.On Wednesday, it was time to get more specific.The Naples…

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay will open the doors to a brand new animal health center today during a ribbon cutting ceremony. The grand opening comes…

State officials express confidence that a federal immigration database will expose more ineligible voters, but critics say the effort harms eligible minorities.

A year to the day an improvised explosive device took his eyesight, Navy Lt. Brad Snyder won his second gold medal in his favorite event, the 400…

Charlie Crist's political transformation continued Thursday night, as the one-time "lifelong Republican" spoke during prime time at the Democratic…

At their conventions, the parties presented varying visions of America — as an entrepreneurial paradise where hard work, innovation and prudence are all that matters, and as a communitarian paradise where racial, national and religious differences are subsumed in a surge of shared success. Voters must decide which resonates most and why.

We have big news today here at WUSF Public Media. Health News Florida, a non-profit website with a substantial following, is now part of WUSF.This means…

The Democratic convention seemed to have more enthusiasm, better speeches and greater emotion than its Republican counterpart. But Charlotte is over, and bad economic numbers are the new reality.

A Habitat for Humanity chapter “was misled” when it purchased a piece of property from the brother of Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota, according to a board…

It was a day that started out like any other here in the Tampa Bay Area. President Bush was on a two-day swing through the state promoting education…

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice.It's an old joke, but USF researchers are putting that concept to the test, as they look at…

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Editor’s note: This story was written by Trevor Aaronson with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting. Executives for K12, the nation’s largest for-profit online educator, discovered in May that the

It's been just over two years since the Deepwater Horizon well was capped, ending the largest oil spill in U.S. history. But is it really over? Over the…

Student-teacher ratios at K12, the nation’s largest online educator, are nearly twice as high as Florida’s state-run virtual school, according to internal company documents obtained by the Florida Center for

Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school without diplomas—an epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the…