The University of South Florida's two-game slump - including dropped passes, missed tackles and physical mistakes - has been compounded by a sobering statistic. ...more

October 30, 2009

Prosecutors wanted a federal explosives trial to be about terrorism; for the defense, it came down this afternoon to rocket science. ...more

March 26, 2009

It has worked the past couple of years with Carlos Pena and Eric Hinske, so the Rays figured they might as well try again with Morgan Ensberg. ...more

February 9, 2009

We are in the deepest recession in the last 20 years and the Hernando Board of County Commissioners is having trouble defining the meaning of "local." ...more

December 21, 2008

Tax money given as an incentive to a private business to create jobs raises the question of how taxpayers at large will benefit from the deal. ...more

October 28, 2008

Baseball, as George Carlin famously reminded us, is different than football. In football, you wear a helmet. ...more

October 26, 2008

When the Ryder Cup was held at Oakland Hills in 2004, the Europeans left with an 18 1/2 -9 1/2 victory, the second of their three straight over the United States. ...more

August 7, 2008

This will be the last What Works column. I reserve the right to report occasionally on any program I run across that shows results in saving the lives and futures of African-American kids. But this is the last in the series I started 19 months ago to spotlight such programs. ...more

July 22, 2008

In Tuesday May 13's paper on the front page, Jim Konkoly published a very good article titled "Mahoney Outlines Plan To End Recession." The article went on to tell of the talk Mr. Mahoney gave at the homeowners meeting on May 12. At the end of the article he talked about some of the questions that were asked and the answers that Mr. Mahoney gave. A good bit of the Mahoney plan to end the recession was based on putting the people to work in the construction industry. The first question that was asked in the question and answer session was, "How would he keep illegal aliens from taking construction jobs on public infrastructure projects aimed at putting American citizens back to work." The answer given was "We can get this problem fixed, but it cannot be a campaign issue." He said "It's not rocket science, you just have to have the will to do it." ...more

May 17, 2008

Again, kudos to Mike Bates (The Lone Ranger) and Hernando Today. ...more

February 6, 2008