For $10,000, a local fire union has bought street signs, radio commercials and about 30,000 restaurant place mats. ...more

September 22, 2008

As Floridians gear up to vote in this November's presidential election, everyone is talking about how Iraq, Afghanistan, energy prices and health care will affect our nation over the next four years. ...more

August 16, 2008

Ed Kaberna tells a story of a guy- he assumes it was a guy - who backed his truck up to a pay phone in Manatee County, wrapped the phone in heavy chains, and pulled the whole thing out of the ground, 4-inch concrete foundation and all, for a couple hundred dollars in quarters, nickels and dimes. ...more

August 4, 2008

Jim Monk isn't interested in knocking on doors or handing out flyers on street corners. ...more

May 29, 2008

If you look at the history of the women's movement, it appears to ebb and flow. Intense periods of protests - such as the 1920s, when women won the right to vote - are followed by dormant periods of seeming contentment with the status quo. The 1960s and '70s was a feminist heyday, marked by Betty Freidan, the birth control pill, Roe v. Wade and the drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. I was a young woman in my 20s then, living in Philadelphia and, later, Los Angeles, when women earned 49 cents for every man's dollar. I remember the rallies, consciousness-raising sessions and National Organization of Women meetings, selfishly hoping to be the beneficiary of improved job opportunities and equal pay. ...more

January 26, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office could install up to 30 cameras this year to monitor criminal activity in the community west of the University of South Florida. ...more

January 19, 2008

Some write e-mails and some slap stickers onto their bumpers. Others hold signs along busy street corners. ...more

January 6, 2008

Test tubes and microscopes don't normally excite me unless, of course, the tubes are filled with liquid gold or the scopes are focused on diamonds. ...more

September 28, 2007

Test tubes and microscopes don't normally excite me unless, of course, the tubes are filled with liquid gold or the scopes are focused on diamonds. ...more

September 20, 2007