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By Tim Pallesen
    
County and municipal officials are warning voters to brace for higher property taxes if they approve tax breaks for homes that don’t have tax exemptions now.
    Amendment Four on the Nov. 6 ballot would give property tax exemptions

See photos from the campaign trail past and present

By Tim Pallesen

The presidential candidates who created a stir in coastal south county this year are only the most recent to discover the political magic along State Road A1A.

Barack Obama staye

Mitt Romney leads the cheer in a football huddle with debate prep coach Sen. Rob Portman and his senior staff members. The game was held down the beach from the Delray Beach Mariott. Members of Romney’s traveling press corps formed the opposing team

Take Palm Tran to Vote Early

Palm Tran, Palm Beach County’s public transportation agency, has several routes that serve Palm Beach County early voting locations. Riders seeking to participate in the County's early voting process can avoid the potenti

By Steve Plunkett

Advertising consultant Steven Engel (RIGHT) and real estate broker Tom Thayer (LEFT) will reappear on the Nov. 6 ballot in their quest to become a Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioner.

To reach the runoff, Engel

By Tim O’Meilia
   
Four things learned from last month’s visit of President Obama and Vice President Biden:
    1. Waiting onlookers and reporters like pizza, ice cream and cinnamon-nut French toast.
    2. Roped-off parking lots mean no parking me

By Tim Pallesen
    
Every registered voter in Palm Beach is eligible to vote in nine races on the Aug. 14 primary ballot. That’s a change from the days when primary elections were strictly closed elections for Republicans and Democrats to select their

Planning and Zoning Board Chairman Cary Glickstein announced his candidacy for mayor in July, seeking a seat that current Mayor Woodie McDuffie plans to vacate early to campaign for county Supervisor of Elections.
    “There has been a gaping leadersh

By Steve Plunkett
    
A second unscheduled opening on the Gulf Stream Town Commission may allow the remaining members to add youth as well as experience to the dais.
    Fred Devitt III sold his North Ocean Boulevard home and resigned his seat July 18,

Three commissioners and the mayor took part in a TV ad supporting challenger Frank Chapman. YouTube Video

By Tim Pallesen
    
The winner in Boca Raton’s city election credits his victory to an unprecedented TV commercial in which his four fellow coun

Gail Adams Aaskov (right) shakes hands with Ocean Ridge Town Clerk Karen Hancsak after being sworn in as town commissioner on April 2.  Aaskov and incumbent Commissioner Geoff Pugh (rear) were elected to fill two open commission seats. 719 residents

Al Jacquet, a legislative aide for state Rep. Mack Bernard (D-West Palm Beach) is sworn into Delray Beach Commission Seat 2 as fellow commissioners (standing l-r) Tom Carney, Angeleta Gray and Adam Frankel along with Mayor Woodie McDuffie observe. Ja

Delray Beach voters can vote for a Seat 2 and a Seat 4 city commission candidate and on a charter amendment when they go to the polls March 13. The charter amendment asks voters whether they want to change commissioners’ and mayor’s length of office

Three candidates are seeking the two seats on the March 13 ballot in Ocean Ridge. Longtime mayor and commissioner Kenneth Kaleel is not seeking re-election after 17 years in office. The top two vote-getters win the open seats. 

* designates winner.

By Margie Plunkett
    
The question for Delray Beach voters this year: Should commission terms be lengthened to three years from the current two years?
    Commissioners voted to add the question to the March 13 election ballot. “The commission is onl

By Steve Plunkett

City Council Member Constance Scott was effectively re-elected Jan. 25 when challenger Bill Trinka officially quit the race just two weeks after filing to run.

“After deep personal reflection I am suspending my campaign for City Co

By Steve Plunkett

City Council Member Constance Scott was effectively reelected Jan. 25 when challenger Bill Trinka officially quit the race just two weeks after filing to run.

‘’After deep personal reflection I am suspending my campaign for City Cou

                  Coastal voters flocked to the polls for March’s municipal elections in far greater percentages than their mainland brethren.

                  Countywide turnout was a meager 12.3 percent, meaning roughly 1 of ev

Zoanne Hennigan (left)

and
Ed Brookes (right)

were the top two vote earners for two commission seats up for election in Ocean Ridge. Hennigan earned 39.7 percent of the vote, Ed Brookes earned 35 percent. Incumbent Betty Bingham, with 25 percent, wa