It scares me as I hear uneducated discourse all around me, comments such as: "He's black. Are we ready for a black president?" ...more

September 22, 2008

Regarding "Crisis In Leadership Threatens Support For Lowry Park Zoo" (Our Opinion, Sept. 18): ...more

September 21, 2008

Editor's note: The following letter was sent to the friends of Sherry and Walt Searle of Spring Hill and is reprinted here at the authors' request. ...more

September 18, 2008

If Michael Phelps endorsed a particular cereal or if Miley Cyrus advertised a brand of face cream, people might be more likely to buy those products. ...more

September 17, 2008

School population changes cause new start for many. ...more

September 16, 2008

For some, it's the third "first" day of school. Monday marked a day of starting over for an unprecedented number of district teachers and students, with changes in student population numbers forcing 29 teachers to shift to different classrooms from those they started in. ...more

September 16, 2008

Got sticker shock at the checkout counter? ...more

September 11, 2008

Beachgoers will be told more about whether it is safe to go in the water under a court settlement between environmentalists and the EPA. ...more

September 11, 2008

President Bush plans to keep the number of U.S. troops in Iraq near the current level through the end of the year and will pull home about 8,000 U.S. troops by February, when the next president will be in charge of wartime decision-making. ...more

September 9, 2008

After QB Tim Tebow claimed a Heisman trophy and put up gaudy numbers, one would expect that there isn't much he could do to improve as a quarterback. ...more

August 29, 2008