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Education Editor, Tampa Bay Times

Tom Tobin is the education editor at the Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times.

Featured Statements

Bloggers
stated on February 2, 2008 in a blog posting:

Obama says America is great, but let's "try to change it."

By Tom Tobin • March 24, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 25, 2008 in Boca Raton.:

"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."

By Tom Tobin • January 25, 2008
Mike Huckabee
stated on January 5, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H.:

"I supported the surge when you didn't."

By Tom Tobin • January 6, 2008
Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 12, 2007 in a debate in Johnston, Iowa:

"We reduced abortion. We increased adoptions by 135 percent."

By Bill Adair • December 13, 2007
John McCain
stated on November 28, 2007 in St. Petersburg, Fla.:

"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."

By Tom Tobin • November 29, 2007
John Edwards
stated on October 29, 2007 in a speech in Manchester, N.H.:

"Our children's safety is potentially at risk because nearly half of the apple juice consumed by our children comes from apples grown in China."

By Tom Tobin • November 9, 2007
Bill Richardson
stated on October 5, 2007 in an interview on CNN:

"Going to public financing really disadvantages Democrats because you're not able to raise funds between the day you win the primaries and the time you're officially nominated."

By Tom Tobin • October 26, 2007
Bill Richardson
stated on October 5, 2007 in an interview on CNN.:

"Fences have not worked. The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall. That's not good among peoples, especially friends like the United States and Mexico."

By Tom Tobin • October 23, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 3, 2007:

"When I was mayor of New York City, I encouraged adoptions. Adoptions went up 65-70 percent. Abortions went down 16 percent."

By Tom Tobin • September 28, 2007
Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2007 in New Hampshire:

If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."

By Tom Tobin • September 4, 2007

Fact-checking attacks on Common Core school standards

By Cara Fitzpatrick • October 21, 2013
Fact-checking attacks on Common Core school standards

By Cara Fitzpatrick • October 21, 2013
Romney misses easy grounder

By Bill Adair • November 29, 2007
The perils of public financing

By Tom Tobin • October 26, 2007
A divide over fences

By Tom Tobin • October 23, 2007
Giuliani's "culture of life," defined

By Tom Tobin • October 1, 2007
Obama: I'm a magnet for turnout

By Tom Tobin • September 4, 2007