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Beck's departure Glenn Beck is not being dropped from Fox News. His is the third-highest rated program on cable news, and his sponsors are very loyal. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, and Fox News are going to team up to produce programs. He will leave his show later this year. Please print the truth. Sandra DeytonTampa
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Mornings and evenings, Allie, my retired racing greyhound, and I walk. It's a nice little neighborhood. The oaks are big enough now to shade the sidewalks and attract cadres of squirrels. Kids weave around the quiet streets on bikes and skateboards. Families like to picnic on the weekends in the park where the little ones can swing, and the older ones can play ball on the nearby diamond.
It's like watching an old friend die. The Albertson's grocery store I've shopped at for 30 years is going out of business, having been bought by chain-grocery Publix. A month from now, it will reopen with all new staff and a different mix of products.
It's just not the same. The Olympics I mean. I remember the first Olympics I saw on the television - the 1964 Summer Olympics from Japan. There were Bob Hayes, the World's Fastest Human, and Joe Frazier, the young boxer. My dad, an Air Force officer, taught me to root against the Russians, East Germans and any Soviet bloc country because they were "commies." These were the countries that wanted America to fail, he said. They hated the way we flaunted our freedom, our capitalist ways and the way we want others to be more like us. Don't be mad at the athletes, just their governments, he said.
My all-time favorite commercial is the one from a few years back where a father with an ear-to-ear grin is pushing a shopping cart through a Staples store, gleefully tossing in school supplies as his dejected children follow glumly behind and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays in the background.
like the oilman he is - we need to drill more wells in the Gulf of Mexico. If you're geographically challenged, that means, among other places, the pristine blue waters you see off Clearwater Beach.
"I'll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood."
As our country "goes green," I ask myself, "What happened to good old-fashioned thriftiness?" When I was a young college student, my husband and I were older than our counterparts and we put each other through school with two preschoolers. We were so glad to have something on the table to feed our children; I became very adept at stretching bologna, macaroni and cheese, hamburger, or whatever else was on hand into multiple meals.
I may have saved "Joe's" life. At least I hope I did. Joe isn't his real name, but it's as good as any other, and it would be wrong to put his real name in the paper.
In the yellowed pages of a scrapbook is a Tampa Times article announcing my father's graduation as a lieutenant from flight school at Drew Field. Remnants of the old airbase are still visible in what we call Drew Park, next to Tampa International Airport.
On June 7 I worked in the yard, went out to dinner and watched the Rays win again. I completely avoided any TV and Internet news.
Recently, my church called a meeting of men interested in mentoring.
One of the heartbreaks of teaching is the inability to "reach" a student. Serious teachers lose sleep over certain kids.
As an English major and therefore (according to my teenage son) a certified weenie, I have a thing for punctuation.
Newsmagazine "60 Minutes" ran a story the other night on a 23-year-old Army gunner on his second tour in Iraq who says he was ostracized, denied promotions and discriminated against because he refused to participate in a prayer circle with fellow soldiers. The name calling and physical threats got so bad he was assigned a bodyguard.
Death hasn't touched them yet. That's why two teenagers thought vandalizing Sunset Meadows Memorial Park would be "fun."
She is tall and slender, with a waterfall of blond hair descending almost to the daisy tattoo at the bottom of her spine, and on a recent evening she met terror in South Tampa.
The first days of spring in rural north Alabama brought the usual chattering from cardinals, blue jays and robin's nests, the revving of lawn mower engines tuning up for the season, even higher pitched conversing from the neighborhood kids. The sound that announced the season for me, though, was the rattling of the metal ball being thrown back and forth in a can of spray paint.
A popular and charismatic pastor of an evangelical Baptist church dies in an airplane crash. He was flying a single-engine Piper airplane with his 13-year old son at his side. There are front-page headlines and grief throughout the community. It is a sad story. But it is a tragedy that should not have occurred.
I'll never forget the day my 33-year-old daughter Michelle was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
On March 1, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Chief William Nesmith was arrested by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office for a domestic violence felony, aggravated assault with a firearm. His wife of four months was the reporting victim.
Dogs, cats, ferrets, etc. They're wonderful to have around.
A shocking statistic was revealed earlier this month: One in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I admit it: I'm slightly obsessed with the movie "Juno." I've seen it three times, bought the soundtrack, started quoting it in daily conversation, the whole nine yards.
Jump afterwards." "Take a really hot shower." While these nuggets of advice on how to not get pregnant may sound ridiculous - after all, I did find them floating around online discussion boards teenagers frequent - this is what passes for safe sex education for some teenagers.
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