Adam Smith

In response to a piece by Brian Cooney published Oct. 16, I don’t know whether to call it misinformation or disinformation, but I doubt he is simply misinformed. Why did it take more than four months to respond to Rep. Harmon’s June 2 letter...

State Rep. Mike Harmon and Sen. Tom Buford are the Kentucky legislative co-chairs for a secretive national organization called the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is dedicated to wining, dining and “educating” state legislators, to...

A plane piloted by Republican congressional candidate Jim Postma crash-landed Monday evening at the Spanaway Airport. No injuries were reported. The plane attempted to land at 7 p.m. when Postma experienced problems with the landing gear, officials said....

It came as little surprise to most political observers in Florida that the Tampa Bay Times didn't endorse U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV in his bid for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, giving its nod to former U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon of Indialantic instead....

For the third time this year and the second this month the U.S. Senate campaign of  Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV has leveled a blistering attack on Tampa Bay Times political editor Adam Smith. This time, Mack's campaign manager Jeff Cohen...

Did you hear about the new bill that would allow the U.S. government's official overseas information agency to rebroadcast its content onto American TV and radio? The bipartisan Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 was introduced in Congress last week by...

It would be irresponsible to make too much of the photos of American troops posing with dead Afghan insurgents published today in the Los Angeles Times. This is not My Lai or even Abu Ghraib. The killings themselves, as far as we know, were legitimate. In...

The state Senate voted 44-4 Wednesday to give final approval to the state Redistricting Commission's map for new legislative and congressional districts for the next 10 years.  The biggest change is creation of a first-ever 10th Congressional District...

Starting next year, Washington will have a new, 10th Congressional District centered in Olympia and incorporating much of South Puget Sound.  On Wednesday, two members of the bipartisan State Redistricting Commission unveiled new boundaries for all of...

Running a word-count program on the transcript of last night's GOP presidential primary debate I get: Mitt Romney -- 4,649 (34%) Newt Gingrich -- 4,118 (30%) Rick Santorum --2,898 ( 21%) Ron Paul -- 2,095 (15%) This does not include......

The U.S. Senate campaign of U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, R-Fort Myers has picked up an impressive ally in its side fight against the media, particularly The Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times. Connie's father, former U.S. Sen. Connie Mack III. The elder...

Moments after President Barak Obama finished his speech to the Joint Session of Congress on September 8, politicians in Washington state published their reactions to President Obama’s American Jobs Act. Here are some excerpts from the statements...