Mayor Richard Rober said Tuesday morning he didn't "sleep a wink" in the wake of a marathon special meeting Monday night during which City Manager Richard Reade was fired. ...more

December 16, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs, turning to a former Army chief of staff once vilified by the Bush administration for questioning its Iraq war strategy shortly before the U.S. invasion. ...more

December 7, 2008

Hospitals need patients. When not enough people are admitted for illness and injury, medical jobs eventually will be lost. ...more

December 6, 2008

Republican Brian Corley impressed Pasco County voters during his two-year stint as their supervisor of elections. ...more

November 5, 2008

On Sept. 7, these comments were made by Frank Parker: "You shall know a tree by its fruit." The problem is no fruit is hitting the ground, which is to say, us, the working class people. ...more

October 16, 2008

DuPont Co. named Ellen Kullman as its chief executive Tuesday, replacing Charles Holliday Jr., who is stepping down after 10 years in which he shifted the company's focus toward biotechnology and away from basic chemicals. ...more

September 24, 2008

The leader of Florida's public university system announced today that he is stepping down, saying the time is right for new leadership and for him to return to the college campus he has missed for three years. ...more

September 22, 2008

Watching that blur with the No. 25 on his back streak up and down the field is something Tennessee has become quite familiar with the past few seasons. ...more

September 21, 2008

To borrow a line we once heard attributed to the late Rich Litowchak, a former publisher of this newspaper, "The fact that you've been doing a job 30 years doesn't mean you've been doing that job well." On all the available evidence, that line can't be used to describe Daniel Azzariti's tenure with the New Port Richey Fire Department. ...more

September 20, 2008

Laurence Veras of Clearwater offended by James Hibbs' ranting about Sarah Palin in his Sept. 6 op-ed page column. ...more

September 17, 2008