Don Soldini is a different breed of cat. Today, he's like the older Elvis, a chubby millionaire who unhesitatingly anoints himself "one of the largest landowners in Highlands County," involved in Avon Park Estates, Lake Placid Development and Leisure Lakes Development. ...more

December 19, 2008

Knut's private digs are in the southwest corner of the Tiergarten, a densely-wooded park that is Berlin's downtown oasis much as Central Park is to Manhattan in New York City. The entire zoo, a maze of footpaths among 1,400 species of 20,000 fenced-in animals, covers some 80 acres. Only the 500 species of birds and snakes are caged. ...more

September 7, 2008

Sixty years ago this month, the top story in campaign year 1948 was not the big poll lead of Republican nominee Thomas Dewey or the plight of President Harry Truman. It was the Berlin Airlift. ...more

July 23, 2008

Few of the thousands of visitors to this year's AirFest at MacDill Air Force Base probably knew the history behind the C-54 transport plane flown in for the occasion. Along with the C-47s, it played an important role in the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen: The Berlin Airlift. ...more

June 26, 2008

No, it's not Harry Potter's birthday. It's the birthday of another great wizard. A political wizard, the late Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of United States. ...more

May 8, 2008