Is the love affair outsiders have with Florida losing its zest? A drop in driver's license applications from out-of-state residents certainly suggests they've cooled to the Sunshine State's charms. The number of applications from outsiders has tumbled 30 percent during the past five years, dropping from more than 585,000 in 2003 to about 410,000 in 2008, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. ...more

February 20, 2009

Is the love affair outsiders have with Florida losing its zest? ...more

February 19, 2009

Jerry Upcavage says in 31 years of pruning and removing trees he's always followed city rules. ...more

January 20, 2009

Jerry Upcavage says in 31 years of pruning and removing trees, he's always followed city rules. ...more

January 19, 2009

For several years, a war of words has been raging in Ybor City. Spanish-speaking visitors have questioned why the signs on Seventh Avenue, the historic district's main thoroughfare, misspelled the word for "seventh." ...more

January 15, 2009

This is not how Derrick Brooks wanted it to end, with his long-vaunted defense trapped in the throes of arguably its worst slump. ...more

December 28, 2008

OPEC on Wednesday agreed to slash 2.2 million barrels from its daily production - its single largest cut ever - while bloc outsiders Russia and Azerbaijan announced their own cutbacks of hundreds of thousands of barrels from the market. ...more

December 18, 2008

The last thing Lexi Smart recalls is going out with friends and trying to hail a taxi. "'Remember Me" by Sophie Kinsella finds Lexi waking up in a hospital in a new year and she cannot remember anything at all about the past three years. Her amnesia is so severe she barely recognizes her mother and sister and is stunned to find out that she had an executive job and is married. She views a DVD of the wedding but it rouses no memories. Her husband is handsome and rich and agrees to let Lexi come home and have the master bedroom to herself until they become reacquainted. Lexi begins to find her way cautiously in her new life and thinks she is doing well until a handsome architect named Jon tells her they have been secret lovers and that she was about to leave her husband for him before her accident. Lexi is attracted to him but has no memory of him but she does eventually decide that she and Eric are not compatible. She leaves her job and decides to start her own company, to revive battered old friendships and maybe try her luck with Jon. ...more

December 17, 2008

"The Necklace," by Cheryl Jarvis (Ballantine Books, $24) ...more

October 26, 2008

I am responding to the letter to the editor titled "Grimming Is Unknown" by Steve Ellis. In this letter he refers to Grimming as an "outsider" and Benton as "one of us." I am sick to death of hearing this kind of rhetoric from people. ...more

October 24, 2008