I am an enterprising taxpaying citizen. I am a farmer willing to diversify any way imaginable to continue paying my bills without borrowing money. My governor Charlie Crist is faced with the same decisions I have to make. He has the option to research diverse revenue producing options for the State of Florida or pledge this taxpayer's assets to pay back Florida's bad debt. ...more

February 23, 2009

The FBI has opened an investigation into the financial dealings of former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson. ...more

February 13, 2009

The FBI is investigating former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson. ...more

February 13, 2009

GLASVEGAS: GLASVEGAS (COLUMBIA) ***½ Glasvegas recalls early, angry Elvis Costello or a Scottish incarnation of The Arcade Fire or Okkervil River with big ambitions, urgent vocals, soaring choruses and jangling guitars. ...more

January 16, 2009

Initially, there was nothing about the 74-year-old beauty contest supplier from the Texas-Arkansas border that inspired trial consultant Robert B. Hirschhorn to want her on his high-tech client's jury. ...more

October 26, 2008

NORTH PORT - Scientists have a good idea what Florida was like 12,000 years ago: It was hot and dry and twice as wide as it is now because the oceans were 400 feet lower than they are now. That would put the Gulf coast of Florida about 100 miles west of the current shoreline. ...more

July 15, 2008

"This makes it official," William Elmo "Mo" Redding said as he proudly showed me a congratulatory card he and is wife Annie Louise received from President George and Laura Bush. It was for the couple's 50th wedding anniversary reached on this June 15, Father's Day. ...more

June 28, 2008

Brothers Hosea and Ethan Allen Grosh were jubilant after they discovered a "monster ledge" of silver in the parched mountains of present-day Nevada in the summer of 1857. ...more

June 7, 2008

The local showmen's club and the University of South Florida Library have teamed up to preserve the colorful history of the carnival industry. ...more

February 20, 2008

The local showmen's club and the University of South Florida Library have teamed up to preserve the colorful history of the carnival industry. ...more

February 14, 2008