'We want our money back" is a battle cry you'd expect from a tea-party rally. Such lack of nuance. Such grasping materialism. ...more

January 23, 2010

Housing starts down Home builders in 2009 started construction on 3,545 homes in Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas and Hernando counties. ...more

January 22, 2010

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said this morning he expects the Obama Administration to approve Florida's request for high speed rail stimulus funds to create a Tampa-to-Orlando route by 2014 that could create thousands of jobs. ...more

January 12, 2010

Six-team tournament begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Bears' Den. ...more

December 4, 2009

There were worse days for Don and Peggy Cook to have lost their home, but the irony was inescapable: on Veterans Day, the bank was foreclosing. ...more

November 12, 2009

Two months ago, Jacksonville, was threatened with cancellation of its 2009 Veterans Day parade after the City Council cut the parade's funding. Only a firestorm of protests from the city's residents restored the parade. ...more

November 10, 2009

On May 20, the city will have its 84th birthday as an incorporated community. It could be right around that time residents will decide whether the city will see an 85th anniversary. On Tuesday, City Council voted 3-2 to approve on second reading an ordinance calling for a referendum that will ask voters to decide whether the city will continue to exist or be dissolved and absorbed into unincorporated Pasco County. ...more

March 14, 2009

WRESTLING Springstead's 11-match win skein concludes as 15-0 Miami-Columbus notches five pins, 40-38. ROSS, SOTO, KLENOVICH, LORENTSEN, COX GO 5-0 ...more

January 5, 2009

On a morning so divinely ideal for flag-waving and speech-making it surely was kissed by the Creator enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the defenders of Mr. Jefferson's flame eased into oak-shaded folding chairs to bask, again, in words that never go stale. ...more

November 12, 2008

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers do battle on the football field once a week. Soldiers overseas face real-life hostilities just about every day. ...more

November 11, 2008