Please Hispanic community, let's not play the identity politics game over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination. She should be confirmed or rejected on the merits of her record, not ethnic background. ...more

June 1, 2009

Dec. 7, 1941 was a day not easily forgotten as more than four dozen county county residents gathered Sunday for Pearl Harbor Remembrance at the Medal of Honor Park. ...more

December 8, 2008

The title of Dave Thompson's "I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto," promised wicked barbs hurled at today's heroes as well as a spirited defense of the music with which I grew up. ...more

December 4, 2008

Almost 70 years ago, as Germany invaded France, President Franklin D. Roosevelt received an urgent visit from Vannevar Bush, then chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics and formerly vice president and dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...more

September 21, 2008

SARASOTA - A bomb. That's all Avery Warner was told upon his arrival at a place that did not officially exist. He would be working on a bomb like none other. And he couldn't talk to anybody about it. Not even his wife. ...more

October 22, 2007