Karen Ignagni, CEO of an outfit called America's Health Insurance Plans, the mouthpiece for the people who do things that should be a crime while running for-profit health insurance companies, recently wrote: ...more

March 20, 2010

Columnist Marty Moore offers his translation of the latest word from ahealth insurance industry trade group. ...more

March 17, 2010

A few days after Harold and Elsie Lesser eloped, he was back fighting "somewhere in the Pacific" during World War II. ...more

February 14, 2010

Custom leather designer covers motorcycle with alligator hide ...more

December 26, 2009

Don't like the idea of national health care? Turn in your Medicare cards; it is a government program you know. Lots of insurance companies out there would love your business. It might cost more but what the heck? ...more

September 12, 2009

Maybe Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White misses his old line of work. ...more

March 14, 2009

Maybe Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White misses his old line of work. White was driving home on North Boulevard Friday evening when he saw a man beating a woman at around the 3700 block. ...more

March 13, 2009

With short-term memory, the mind continually cycles fresh information. ...more

March 9, 2009

It's not because I'm single and unattached that Valentine's Day fills me with a kind of internal cringing normally reserved for the sound of nails dragging down a chalkboard. It's not sour grapes or cynicism gone amuck. It's simply that Valentine's Day is, and nearly always has been, a crass, "What the heck am I going to get him or her" competition, that devalues spontaneity, simplicity, romance and - I'm pulling out the big guns here - most of all, love. ...more

February 14, 2009

Like A Good Neighbor? So State Farm wants to stop writing homeowner's insurance in Florida. I checked into their automobile insurance some time ago and was told that I could not just buy auto insurance. They wanted it all - homeowner's, auto, life, health. At that point I was surprised it didn't include asking for my first-born child. ...more

February 2, 2009