Hillsborough County school board members approved a new school calendar today that calls for students to be in school on Good Friday for the next two years. ...more

May 19, 2009

Picking Palin to be his running mate was to McCain the perfect political choice, but using her family's experience in order to gain the fundamentalist votes will not be good for the fundamentalist cause, as it blows up their theory that teaching abstinence is the solution to teen pregnancies. Before Palin became a political pawn, women were supposed to stay home and teach their children family values, even to the point of home schooling. We are now being told that a working mother can have it all as long as she doesn't resort to abortions (and can afford to have others take up her duties at home.) ...more

September 8, 2008

Measles cases in the United States are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday. ...more

August 22, 2008

NEW YORK - Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has been linked to two murder plots in an obscure racketeering case involving a drug gang in his old neighborhood. ...more

June 30, 2008

The greatest story ever told must be pretty darn good; it's been retold too many times to count and still going strong. So when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," brought to stage in 1971, they were nearly guaranteed an instant hit. ...more

June 26, 2008

The greatest story ever told must be pretty darn good; it's been retold too many times to count and still going strong. So when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice created the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar," first released as a double album in 1970 and brought to stage in 1971, they were nearly guaranteed an instant hit. Despite backlash from religious groups, five Tony Award nominations, a film adaptation and numerous subsequent stage productions proved Webber and Rice knew what they were doing. ...more

June 24, 2008

My, my, my, some of you were more wadded than a Gordian knot over a column last week on the sentencing of Nick Bollea, the unfortunate son of Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, the village idiot of Belleair. ...more

May 18, 2008

Embryonic stem cells can develop into all kinds of tissue. Scientists have long sought to find a way to create such cells because of the potential for new ways to treat disease and injury. ...more

November 21, 2007

A devout and defiant Austrian farmer beheaded by the Nazis in 1943 for deserting Hitler's army was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church on Friday in the last major step before possible sainthood. ...more

October 27, 2007

Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required for preschool. ...more

October 18, 2007