"Suffer little children to come to me ..." So begins one of the most cited passages in the Bible. Yet, in cases involving the deaths of children in faith-healing families, the second half of Jesus's admonition from Luke 18:16 is at the heart of legal controversy: "... and forbid them not." ...more

November 22, 2009

In 2006 Congress was debating whether to authorize increasing the size of the national debt. A freshman senator addressed his colleagues: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt is a sign of leadership failure." ...more

November 2, 2009

With three generations of my family in Ybor City, my childhood memories are the catalyst for the ideal of a kinder, gentler society. ...more

March 15, 2009

Administrator David Hamilton recently suspended our public works director. ...more

September 3, 2008

Most inhumanities start small, like the beginning of a tsunami, but then build, as they head toward inevitable and unstoppable destruction. ...more

August 2, 2008

By Saturday morning, the verbal dust had long since settled at the Lee County Sports Complex, where the Twins held their first full-squad workout of the spring. The day before, Minnesota outfielder Delmon Young had passed the first test of what he insists is a newfound professional contentment. ...more

February 24, 2008

John M. Angelini finally quit smoking in 1999, after triple bypass surgery and, 20 years earlier, a major heart attack. ...more

February 12, 2008

Smoking is good. At least it is in John M. Angelini's case. The usually reviled habit provided the impetus for his 20-year collection of more than 500 cigarette lighters. About half of them are lighting up the Hudson Regional Library in a display that opened last week. ...more

February 6, 2008