As news spread of a Plant High teacher's battle with leukemia, students present and past quickly signed up to help through a Facebook page, "We Love Mrs. Phillips.'' Within 24 hours in August, Tamara Phillips went from thinking she had an infection to learning she had Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Phillips immediately started chemotherapy and blood transfusions at Moffitt Cancer Center. ...more

October 30, 2009

Chalk up two for the bad guys. ...more

March 11, 2009

The 22nd Amendment of the Constitution proposed by the Republican Congress and ratified in 1951. The amendment limits a person to two full elected terms as president. ...more

January 9, 2009

A prescription for financial collapse of the American government, jobs and the economy cannot be separated. In the last eight years millions of American jobs have been outsourced to foreign shores. The American Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street and many in Congress, both parties, have promoted this as good for America. They call it "Free Trade." ...more

November 20, 2008

I am responding to the editorial published Oct. 24, "The Groupthink Bully At Helm Of School Board." It is a sad day and an ongoing trend for the Trib to pay attention to drama instead of news. It is also sad that the opinion is full of false statements and petty nonsense. Let me provide you with the facts. ...more

November 10, 2008

One hundred and sixty-five years ago, a Scottish businessman set out his plans for a newspaper. James Wilson's starting point was "a melancholy reflection": "while wealth and capital have been rapidly increasing" and science and art "working the most surprising miracles," all classes of people were marked "by characters of uncertainty and insecurity." ...more

October 25, 2008

I will likely vote for John McCain, but certainly not because of the column you published by Mr. Stover. He makes it sound like Senator Obama has secretive close ties with a terrorist fugitive named Bill Ayers. This is utter nonsense. Billy Ayers was one of many thousands of militants who railed at American government in the 1960s. Yes, he was prominent in the Weathermen, and yes, he set off a bomb under a statue, but that was over 40 years ago when Obama was perhaps in third grade, and he has apparently mellowed a bit like almost all radicals of his generation. The Bill Ayers with whom Obama has had only limited contact is now a "Distinguished Professor" at the University of Chicago. It is the Bill Ayers picked by Chicago's Mayor Daly to set up an educational reform program in the Windy City, funded by a $50 million grand from the prestigious Annenberg Foundation. ...more

September 15, 2008

In 1951, Morton Sobell was tried and convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on espionage charges. He served more than 18 years in Alcatraz and other federal prisons, then traveled to Cuba and Vietnam after his release in 1969 and became an advocate for progressive causes. ...more

September 12, 2008

Finding someone to run the local chamber of commerce can be a tall order. ...more

August 21, 2008

Sickles High School students hope to make a difference in the presidential election this year, get others talking about current events and inspire political action. ...more

August 20, 2008