O'Donnell and Barbara Walters are trading shots this week. O'Donnell fired off last night on Conan O'Brien's late night talkie with some sarcastic faint praise for Walters' "The View." ...more

November 21, 2008

The elephant sitting at the breakfast table being ignored during this week's buildup to the Florida-Georgia game is the Bulldogs' first-touchdown, bench-emptying celebration from a year ago. ...more

October 28, 2008

Florida has all the motivation it needs against rival Georgia, and coach Urban Meyer doesn't want to give the Bulldogs any help. ...more

October 27, 2008

The chip on the shoulder is gone. The limo and the pajama suit are history. ...more

August 1, 2008

The foreclosure epidemic has spared no one - not even newly elected city Commissioner Curtis Beebe. ...more

July 16, 2008

Cutting back. It's what we've been hearing about over the last few months. Airline companies and the financial industry are doing it. But are you? ...more

June 29, 2008

Even Hillary Clinton critics are feeling a bit sorry for her these days. Barack Obama has moved on, and so has the campaign for the presidency. Recall a year ago when most people thought it would be the Republicans who would still be struggling to find a candidate and Hillary would be standing tall, waiting for her next foe. Things change a lot in a year. Obama has all but won, even if he technically hasn't wrapped up the Democratic nomination. He will, and there's little hope for Clinton. Where did it all go wrong? Most people agree that Clinton got waylaid by an Illinois twister. Few times in United States history has a political dynamo entered the scene. It happened when Abraham Lincoln ran for office, and again when John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert ran for the presidency. Since then, it's been fairly quiet. ...more

May 22, 2008

Former Hillsborough High School and University of South Florida basketball coach Don Williams, 84, has been in declining health since breaking his hip nearly five years ago. Never a verbose man, he has lost his ability to talk, but he remains in good spirits at a Zephyrhills nursing home. ...more

February 16, 2008

After what seemed like months of a hectic schedule the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly were enjoying a relaxing evening in the parsonage living room catching up on a pile of newspapers. It is amazing to me how much the new news is like the old news, which only increases my admiration for those who write the news. ...more

December 4, 2007