The Barrio Latino Commission, the citizens' panel charged with protecting the architectural integrity of Ybor City, is mistaken to oppose a proposal by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office to close a street adjacent to the sheriff's headquarters. ...more

February 6, 2008

I have the highest respect for anyone who ever served in the military, and especially for Col. Donald Myers. ...more

February 1, 2008

Refreshing Viewpoint What a refreshing change of viewpoint. I agree that life's joys are best experienced in a conscious state, and heartily with the writer. It's time to just say "no" to drugs and "yes" to life. ...more

January 24, 2008

The Federal Reserve, confronted by deepening panic in global financial markets about a possible recession in the United States, struck back on Tuesday with the biggest one-day reduction of interest rates on record and at least temporarily stopped a vertigo-inducing plunge in stock prices. ...more

January 23, 2008

After the Democrats took control of the Congress in 2007, they tried to limit funding on the war in Iraq. Some voters wanted the Democrats to stop the war. When will that happen? Mahoney didn't see it that way: "I don't think that's the right characterization." Instead, he wants President Bush to refocus on the war on terrorism. Mahoney, D-Palm Beach, who was elected to represent Highlands County and the 16th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, spent Friday talking to television stations and newspaper reporters about his first year in Congress. ...more

January 7, 2008

This is in response to a letter dated Dec. 31, titled "Combat Veterans." It never fails. Let something good come along and some liberal with his hand out will foul it up. This war is different from the others we have known in our time, with the exception of the Kamikazes of World War II. They, too, were driven by religion. The other wars have always been on other shores. This one began on our lands, or have we forgotten Sept. 11, 2001? During World War II, the press was on our side. In Vietnam, the politicians took over and turned that war over to the enemy, who now admits that we had them defeated, but for the bad press. ...more

January 5, 2008

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan jolted the race for the White House on Thursday, sending candidates in both parties scrambling for political advantage while condemning the attack. ...more

December 28, 2007

"In God's Name" begins with a brief introduction from its filmmakers, Jules and Gedeon Naudet, who take the viewer back - back to the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when the brothers were in lower Manhattan working on a documentary on New York firefighters. ...more

December 23, 2007

Coffee-table books make wonderful last-minute Christmas gifts - for someone else or as a gift to yourself. They focus on every possible subject, from Ansel Adams' breathtaking black-and-white photos of Yosemite National Park to the beauty of seashells. ...more

December 16, 2007

Hillsborough County firefighter Brian Muldowney's oldest brother and cousin were killed in the World Trade Center attacks. On Friday, he joined 500 others at Legends Field to see a touring exhibit of a planned memorial and museum to honor those killed on Sept. 11, 2001. ...more

December 15, 2007