While the mud thickens as the Democrats and Republicans go at each other to try to win the presidency, the Bush administration is moving in its last 11 months toward addressing one of the greatest of all domestic problems: the cold but savage slaughter and the enormous expense imposed upon this society by the street gangs that terrorize urban communities from coast to coast. ...more

February 5, 2008

Please excuse an impertinent observation, but isn't the idea of the supervisor of ELECTIONS hiring a company to teach people how to VOTE, about as goofy as the tax collector retaining the services of a couple of panhandlers to gather up revenue? ...more

February 2, 2008

The long-running debate about what to do with private dirt roads in need of repair or maintenance in unincorporated Pasco County, which county commissioners plan to tackle once again, needs a jolt of common sense. ...more

January 13, 2008

Apart from ditching the "Devil" in 2007, the Tampa Bay Rays proposed building an open-air ballpark on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. ...more

December 25, 2007

It was the first day of November and Coleman Stipanovich's world was coming undone. Florida school districts and towns had begun pulling their cash out of the $26 billion money market fund he supervised after they learned it held subprime-tainted debt. ...more

December 20, 2007

The Tampa Bay Rays' proposal for a new waterfront baseball stadium made no mention of wanting money from St. Petersburg or Pinellas County taxpayers. ...more

November 14, 2007

In 2002, an Orlando-based planning group produced a paper titled: 'Why Can't We Solve Orlando's Traffic Congestion Problems By Moving the Freight Trains?' ...more

October 27, 2007

LAKELAND - In 2002, an Orlando-based planning group produced a paper titled: "Why Can't We Solve Orlando's Traffic Congestion Problems By Moving the Freight Trains?" ...more

October 26, 2007

LAKELAND - In 2002, an Orlando-based planning group produced a paper titled: "Why Can't We Solve Orlando's Traffic Congestion Problems By Moving the Freight Trains?" Five years later, the answer is they can and they are – by dumping the problem on Polk, Hillsborough and other counties to the west. ...more

October 26, 2007

Two state senators who came together last year to criticize the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority have opposite views over the authority's recent effort to hire an outside lobbyist. ...more

October 24, 2007