The organizer of a day that brought nearly 200 Florida Muslims to the state Capitol to lobby politicians Tuesday was called a "known terrorist sympathizer" by a head lawmaker and others, a label the leader emphatically rejected. ...more

March 11, 2009

The organizer of a day that brought nearly 200 Florida Muslims to the state Capitol to lobby politicians today was called a "known terrorist sympathizer" by a head lawmaker and others, a label the leader emphatically rejected. ...more

March 10, 2009

For days, the column he'd written, re-written, tightened, expanded, boiled down and more than once very nearly tossed sat, at last, undisturbed in its editing queue. Ah, the creative process. ...more

October 15, 2008

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. ...more

May 21, 2008

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - The big cases don't go away quietly. ...more

October 13, 2007