Local NAACP leaders strive to find new ways to make the organization relevant for young people today. ...more

February 8, 2009

Geographically, Egmont Key is hardly significant; a speck of an island dwarfed by nearby Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

January 5, 2009

Geographically, Egmont Key is hardly significant; a speck of an island dwarfed by nearby Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. ...more

January 4, 2009

Homeless In Library Recently I decided to go to the downtown branch of the Hillsborough County Public Library. To my surprise I found it has become a homeless shelter. Nearly everyone in the library had the typical homeless backpacks. The majority of these people were occupying the library's computers. Walking around I found that these individuals were not on job search sites but were watching movies, playing games and viewing other meaningless sites. Is this Tampa's way of dealing with the homeless problem, to keep them entertained at taxpayer expense? ...more

December 29, 2008

Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown, 58, a radio engineer, recalled a time in Naples when he was hired to be a "prisoner" at the local jail. Green, 48, a theater professor at the University of South Florida, told of how her life has changed since her 78-year-old mother fell, injured her shoulder and was diagnosed with dementia. ...more

December 13, 2008

TAMPA -- Bill Brown had a story to tell. So did Fanni Green. Brown and Green today became the first two Tampa area residents to record 40-minute personal accounts for the StoryCorps project. This nonprofit effort to collect personal oral history has set up a mobile recording studio in Ybor City. ...more

December 11, 2008

Lakeland has a rich history of making quick work of opponents and having the running clock implemented because of a lopsided score. ...more

September 20, 2008

John Sanders will begin his first job as a principal this year at Benito Middle School. ...more

August 13, 2008

No parks, no palm trees. Just cotton fields. That, according to Diana Goodwin, was how the Dunedin Marina looked in its early days. Goodwin imparts such snippets of local history during her hourlong walking tour through the marina and downtown Dunedin. ...more

February 23, 2008

Since the 1800s, when Cornish immigrants introduced the dish to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the pasty has become a staple of culinary cuisine in that part of the country. ...more

February 9, 2008