Consider this when deciding on the next president of our country: After seven years of a Republican presidency, our economy is crumbling as is our infrastructure. We have no comprehensive energy policy. Health care is in trouble; education is slipping; oil companies have sucked billions from us in subsidies and at the gas pumps. Corporate boards, CEOs, CFOs and Wall Street investment bankers have robbed us. We have killed thousands and spent billions on an unnecessary war in Iraq. Our national debt is now over $10 trillion and the Republicans think they should stay in the White House. What's wrong with this picture? ...more

September 22, 2008

Think Of The Economy Regarding "Call to 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Misleads Nation, Threatens Florida" (Our Opinion, Sept. 7): ...more

September 14, 2008

The story line was in place even before they filled the pool inside the Water Cube. ...more

August 19, 2008

What Will Mr. And Mrs. Candidate Do? Many know about town hall meetings where the questions are polite but no definitive answers are received. So let me ask these persons who profess they can make change, and some who claim they already are, just what they would do with these issues? ...more

August 17, 2008

Our school superintendent announced that the county has received the first application for a charter school in years. ...more

August 15, 2008

Max Risner of Hudson says United States should tap carbon fuel resources to break dependence on Middle Eastern sources. ...more

August 13, 2008

Ted Johns of New Port Richey offers the unbelievable tale of "Schmeron" and "Schmaliburton." ...more

August 6, 2008

You may not know a Tampa company called Syniverse. But if you have a cell phone, you should give it a nod of thanks when your calls go through. ...more

June 17, 2008

You may not know a Tampa company called Syniverse. But if you have a cell phone, you should give them a nod of thanks when your calls go through. Working behind the scenes, it makes billions of phone calls around the world work smoothly and has found itself in one of the most lucrative crossroads in the wireless market. ...more

June 16, 2008

I am writing to you today with some questions and comments regarding gas prices, and more specifically, the greed of the members of OPEC. If we are the greatest nation on earth, and I believe we are, why do we tolerate the gouging we are being subjected to? Why don't we, as a nation, tell the Arab oil companies where they can put their oil, and instead use our own oil for our own people? What happened to all that oil we are pumping in Alaska? What about all the oil rigs off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana? Isn't that American oil? Why do we export our oil to China or wherever, and then import Arab oil for Americans to use? Why not let the Chinese deal with the stuck up Saudi king, and we just keep our own oil? Doesn't that make more sense? And if we did use our own oil and let somebody else deal with Saudi Arabia, then the president would not have to meekly ask the king to please pump up the supply of oil, only to be told no! Because I for one do not like the sight of the American president sucking up to anybody, let alone some smug Arab king! ...more

May 23, 2008