The sight of the nation's capital lit up at night still inspires U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite whenever she returns to Washington, D.C. ...more

March 11, 2009

Kevin Beckner pleaded with his fellow Hillsborough County commissioners Thursday to break the restraints of the past and reopen the issue of providing health care benefits for the unmarried domestic partners of county employees. ...more

January 23, 2009

Every president for more than three decades has had to talk with federal prosecutors at one time or another. President-elect Barack Obama may have set a land-speed record by giving his first interview to investigators even before taking the oath of office. ...more

December 26, 2008

With a series of forceful actions in recent days, amid an almost unprecedented set of challenges, Barack Obama has taken an unusual step for a president-elect: attempting to alter the country's perilous course even before he takes office. ...more

November 23, 2008

Nearly 8,000 jobs waiting to be filled. Empty file drawers. Missing computer hard drives. Even furniture piled in the hallways. ...more

November 10, 2008

Democrats messed up. Republicans were robbed. It took a special House committee more than a year of investigating, at a cost of $500,000, to validate GOP claims that majority Democrats made the wrong call on a contested vote during one late night in the summer of 2007. The dispute fed into the ongoing highly partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill. ...more

September 26, 2008

Waiter and author Steve Dublanica has a few tips on what makes a good customer. ...more

September 2, 2008

An underused church will get re-invented tomorrow when it will be dedicated as Covenant House Bridge to Independence, a Christ-centered re-entry and recovery ministry and residency program for men wanting to break the chains of addiction, crime and incarceration. ...more

July 26, 2008

The Republican presidential candidates sing from the same book, but if you listen to each of them on individual issues, they flip-flop depending on their audience. On the war in Iraq, with one exception, they agree on continuing the war until we have victory. Their timetable is several years to eternity. The Middle East is in shambles. All agree on making the tax cuts for the wealthy permanent. As for the corporate tax cuts, they also agree we should let them have more money to create jobs (lower wage jobs.) The number of people in our country who live in poverty has grown during this administration. Corporate America has moved jobs to India and they buy products they sell to us from China that have also caused many problems in recalls. ...more

February 7, 2008