Plant City Entertainment's presentation of its summer musical, "Brigadoon," an award-winning Broadway play, opens Friday at the Cornerstone Center. ...more

July 16, 2008

To Barack Obama's thrust that John McCain is running for George W. Bush's third term, McCain parries that Obama is running from Jimmy Carter's second. We are supposed to cringle in horror at the prospect. ...more

June 28, 2008

Dean Johnson wrote a letter blaming liberal Democrats for the rising price of gasoline. This is an example of the blind partisanship that is partly responsible for the trouble we're in. At least since the '70s, we've known that foreign oil would be a problem for us. But as Fox News pointed out, the first offshore oil ban was passed during the Reagan Administration. Then the senior President Bush, followed by Clinton and the current President Bush, all issued executive orders banning offshore drilling. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, prevailed on his brother to re-purchase existing offshore oil leases in 2002, shutting down any chance that there would be offshore drilling in Florida. ...more

June 23, 2008

LAKE PLACID — 'Lynn Weber brings her 9-pound-dog "Fang" to work with her five or six days a week and was amazed by how many customers carry dog treats with them when they shop. "I'm surprised I don't have the world's first 300-pound shihtzu," quipped the owner of tj's Leather. Although Weber's shop attracts bikers from all corners of the state, almost every customer seems to know Fang, a 2-year old "biker dog" who wears a custom made lather scarf with studs. "It's funny," said Weber. "Even the most hard-nosed biker who comes in here, they fall in love with him. ...more

June 21, 2008

Dump the doldrums, and put a spring in your step. Today is the happiest day of the year. ...more

June 20, 2008

When she began teaching math 30 years ago, Norris Johnson didn't even own a computer. ...more

June 4, 2008

This civil court war is over. Joan Kennedy Biddle, who sued the city this year to collect $22 million for a Civil War-era debt owed to her great-grandfather plus 147 years' worth of interest, has given up the fight. ...more

May 31, 2008

In a small book titled "Un Spun, finding facts in a world of disinformation" co-authored by Jackson and Jamieson, the following statement was made: "The skeptic demands evidence, and rightly so." ...more

May 29, 2008

With the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics now only 75 days off, the dreaded and not-so-unfamiliar B-word is once again being mentioned by a few invited nations looking to make a statement on one of the world's biggest stages. That word, of course, is boycott – the political tact used by nations wishing to show their displeasure with either the game's host, or just something they don't agree with in the world. ...more

May 24, 2008

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May 21, 2008