Older people are sticky. That is the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and twentysomethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby boomers and older people. ...more

October 5, 2007

CLEARWATER - Sales are still declining but inventory has stabilized, and the slumping Tampa Bay area housing market should turn around by the end of spring, the National Association of Realtors' top economist said Thursday. ...more

October 4, 2007

Four musicians with backgrounds of playing in area bands have recently formed Shotgun, a band dedicated to the sounds they love. Shotgun's motto is "A Blast from the Past." ...more

October 3, 2007

Would you like your Civil War history seasoned with baseball trivia? Spritzed up with a winery tour? Do you long to dissect the Battle of Antietam with a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian? ...more

September 30, 2007

Eight years ago, not long after 72-year-old Anne Beale Golsan had retired on disability from her job as a librarian, she put a stack of paid bills out for the mail, hung up a freshly pressed outfit and taped a note to the front of the house. ...more

September 21, 2007

It's doubtful that any of the children who participated in "Kid Nation" had even heard of "Lord of the Flies." ...more

September 17, 2007

When people think of downtown, they picture a small radius of high-rises. But this will change in the next 20 years, predicts Terry Cullen, who has been working on an update of the city's growth plan for four years. ...more

September 5, 2007

Before America's baby boomers came of age, pro football was just another face in the sports crowd. ...more

September 2, 2007