I can't say I was surprised a couple of weeks back when I got a more-than-normal amount of reader comments concerning an Oct. 21 column I wrote concerning Westchase and an issue involving speed humps. ...more

November 4, 2009

I can't say I was surprised a couple of weeks back when I got a more-than-normal amount of reader comments concerning an Oct. 21 column I wrote concerning Westchase and an issue involving speed humps. ...more

November 4, 2009

This is for my friend Yvonne Ponsor, who has brought many new understandings into my life: the meaning of courage, the power of persistence, the generosity of friendship and the vision of all that the mind is capable of. ...more

April 1, 2009

The more we get together, the happier we'll be When absence intrudes, our memories will flee. ...more

March 15, 2009

Maybe it's curiosity. Or worry. Or both. A Web site launched by the White House last month to allow citizens to keep track of where stimulus dollars are going is getting 3,000 hits per second and already has registered more than 150 million hits altogether. ...more

March 7, 2009

Cuba is expected to rapidly improve its infrastructure and accommodations for tourists as soon as U.S. restrictions on travel there are lifted, Pinellas County tourism officials said Wednesday. ...more

March 5, 2009

Cuba is expected to rapidly improve its infrastructure and accommodations for tourists as soon as U.S. restrictions on travel there are lifted, Pinellas County tourism officials said this morning. ...more

March 4, 2009

War hero Clay Yarber hated to fly — and no wonder. He was twice shot down during Vietnam and had the medals and wounds to prove it. His daughter Nicole is still learning to live with the fact he died during what was supposed to be a routine commuter flight last week in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y. ...more

February 20, 2009

Are our teachers making the grade(s)? A good teacher keeps students engaged, fosters curiosity and has the ability to teach what is being tested. Sometimes testing or grading certain students can be as painful for them as it is for the teacher, causing a negative attitude toward that subject for life. ...more

January 24, 2009

The heart begins to race, as the body is amped up with adrenaline in anticipation of taming a track that has yet to be tamed. ...more

December 9, 2008