Many sports franchise are said to be afflicted with "curses" and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have suffered more than most. ...more

December 18, 2007

Odd as it may sound, traffic can be a good thing. It certainly is for Highland Homes when you consider that traffic for the home builder equals families looking for homes. ...more

December 16, 2007

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., has announced plans to introduce federal legislation to better regulate embedded giving, the fast-growing fundraising practice that involves building a gift to charity into everyday purchases. "We need to ensure that charity is not being used solely as a sales pitch," Menendez said in a statement. ...more

December 16, 2007

Lyn's new column, The Caregiver's Caregiver, first appeared last July in 4You, Tampa Tribune's magazine for health, fitness, nutrition and appearance. Kim Franke-Folstad, editor of 4You, recognized the need for caregivers to take as good care of themselves as they do the loved ones in their care. The subject is one Lyn has been involved in since the 1980s when she began helping care for both her father and her grandmother. Her father suffered with Alzheimer's disease for 13 years. Her grandmother did not have dementia, but she grew increasingly frail and unable to care for herself. She lived to be 95. Lyn's many magazine articles on caring for caregivers and her book filled with practical caregiving tips earned her the nickname "the caregiver's caregiver." Therefore, naming the new column was easy. ...more

December 7, 2007

More than once, Haywood Henson has been mistaken for Richard Petty. ...more

November 28, 2007

Growing up in the 1920s, Bill Lord remembers feasting on the sweet, rich nuts of American chestnut trees - the majestic species that a fungus would soon all but wipe out. ...more

November 23, 2007

The housing market is driving developers of Little Harbor, a residential enclave of 1,500 homes at Bahia Beach, to seek approval to change its zoning to allow shorter-term rentals of its housing units and to convert up to 250 of the housing units to hotel units. ...more

November 21, 2007

You don't have to be a Boy Scout to live by the motto "Be prepared." Many American workers learn that lesson each year, as foreign competition, technology and other factors force their companies to shut down or move overseas. People ask, "How am I going to make it?" ...more

November 11, 2007

TAMPA - Bon Jovi's "Lost Highway" tour winds its way to the St. Pete Times Forum, 401 Channelside Drive, on April 27. ...more

November 5, 2007

The last thing the dedicated workers at Pasco County Animal Services want is to be forced by irresponsible pet ownership to take animals away or euthanize them at the county animal shelter. ...more

November 2, 2007