County parks board to decide Thursday whether to budget $2.5 million for the Brandon Community Advantage Center. ...more

June 2, 2008

A truth and reconciliation commission is examining a decadeslong government policy that required Canadian Indians to attend schools where students were forced to lose their cultural identity and were routinely subjected to abuse. ...more

June 2, 2008

TAMPA – Once one of the state's biggest road contractors, Michael Cone will spend the next 20 years behind bars, undone, a judge said, by his greed and sheer inability to tell the truth. ...more

May 2, 2008

I was offered a piece of cake recently that a friend had confiscated from an office soiree. Not knowing the name of the decadent dessert or who baked it, she told me, "You have to try it." ...more

February 6, 2008

I was offered a piece of cake recently that a friend had confiscated from an office soiree. Not knowing the name of the decadent dessert or who baked it, she told me, "You have to try it." ...more

February 6, 2008

Google's fourth-quarter profit missed analyst expectations, signaling that the crumbling U.S. economy has dented the Internet search leader's moneymaking machine. ...more

February 1, 2008

In the 17th century, the Catholic Church rejected the teaching of Galileo on the grounds that it contradicted Scripture. Today, one would be hard pressed to find anyone who would not accept Galileo's position. The problem was not with Scripture, but with the church's understanding of both Scripture and the science Galileo taught. Apparently, some members of the School Board of Highlands County have not learned that lesson and persist in making the same error the Catholic Church did centuries ago. The creation myths of Genesis I and II affirm our belief in God as creator but cannot be understood as giving us a scientific historical description of creation itself. The first two chapters of Genesis both say the same thing but their particulars vary and contradict one another. Did God create man and women both at the same time and after he created animals as in Genesis I or did God create Adam and then the animals before taking a rib from Adam to make Eve as in Genesis II? ...more

February 1, 2008

U.S. Troops Still Needed Regarding "Down-Sizing U.S. Bases Abroad Essential As Allies Grow Strong" (Our Opinion, Jan. 21): ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority today awarded an Alabama construction company a $60 million contract to build the second-stage, six-story economy parking garage. It will have 5,668 parking spaces, with 3,000 expected to be ready by Thanksgiving. ...more

January 10, 2008

The Tampa Bay Rays didn't need to conduct a wide-ranging survey of Florida legislators to determine that a state subsidy for their proposed $450 million stadium would be a tough sell. ...more

January 8, 2008