Dazmond Patterson never searched for a reason why. Despite being a freshman and first-year varsity player for Plant City in 2008, Patterson never thought twice when Raiders coaches thrust him into one of the most prominent positions in high school football as the team's starting tailback. ...more

November 11, 2009

Dazmond Patterson never searched for a reason why. Despite being a freshman and first-year varsity player for Plant City in 2008, Patterson never thought twice when Raiders coaches thrust him into one of the most prominent positions in high school football as the team's starting tailback. ...more

November 8, 2009

I naively believe that there are a lot of NASCAR fans reading this column and are interested in what happened when Dale Earnhardt and Brian Vickers caused a massive pileup of wrecked racers this past Sunday in the Daytona 500 race, while actually there may be only a few dozen. ...more

February 19, 2009

Janice Hall spent more than two decades fussing over sentence structure and misplaced commas and clarifying facts in the stories that crossed her desk. ...more

February 16, 2009

"The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family," by Charles Lachman (Union Square Press, $24.95) ...more

November 2, 2008

FOOTBALL   Hernando High Head Coach John Palmer makes long awaited debut against archrival Central High at 7:30 p.m. attempting to snap a couple of Leopard hexes.   IT'S BEEN 23 YEARS SINCE ANY HHS COACH OPENED WITH A WIN   ...more

September 5, 2008

Paul Nerger of Valrico flipped through a binder detailing the specifications of a dozen foreclosed houses in the Bay area as he rode a bus one recent Saturday morning. He was one of 13 riders people who had signed on for a "foreclosure bus tour" organized by a Tampa Realtor. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - Paul Nerger of Valrico flipped through a binder detailing the specifications of a dozen foreclosed houses in the Bay area as he rode a bus one recent Saturday morning. He was one of 13 riders people who'd signed on for a "foreclosure bus tour" organized by a Tampa Realtor. ...more

July 10, 2008

In reference to an article in the June 28 Tampa Tribune titled "Landlords not wanting to rent to families who have been foreclosed on, losing their homes." How dare they? How dare them pass judgment on a family's misfortunes and place them in a category of deadbeats, insinuating that they do not want to pay for a roof over their family's heads. Not everyone is looking for a "free ride" or out to get something for free. I realize that there are people out there like that, but you simply cannot stereotype all people that have had foreclosures or other misfortunes as deadbeat. ...more

July 3, 2008

Getting knocked down isn't what matters. What you do when you're sprawled on the floor does. And if anyone could write a book on that, it's Kim Ruoff. ...more

May 9, 2008