6. WOMEN IN POWER Women in the Bay area held positions of authority before 2000, but there were never so many at the same time as in the first decade of the 21st century. Those in high places included Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio; Hillsborough Community College President Gwendolyn Stephenson; Judy Genshaft, USF president; MaryEllen Elia, Hillsborough County schools superintendent; Pat Bean, Hillsborough County administrator; Jane Castor, Tampa police chief; Denise Palmer, publisher of The Tampa Tribune; and Janet Coats, the newspaper's former vice president and executive editor. ...more

December 31, 2009

Opinionated talk is big business on cable news networks when the sun goes down. But during the day, it's the complete opposite. ...more

December 28, 2009

Letters to the editor from Dec. 19 North Pinellas edition. ...more

December 19, 2009

Letters to the editor from Dec. 12 editions. ...more

December 16, 2009

Oprah Winfrey is only the beginning for Sarah Palin's book tour. ...more

November 4, 2009

With chants of "No justice in Tampa," Johnnie Compton and about a dozen like-minded supporters picketed the Hillsborough County Courthouse on Friday over a judge's decision to release a sex offender on bail pending his appeal. ...more

March 28, 2009

With chants of "No justice in Tampa," Johnnie Compton and about a dozen like-minded supporters picketed the Hillsborough County Courthouse today over a judge's decision to release a sex offender on bail pending his appeal. ...more

March 27, 2009

The fury of Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and other nativists in response to the news that the prime suspect wanted for the murder of Chandra Levy is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador could easily be dismissed as racism. But complicating matters is that most Americans probably agree with them. ...more

March 1, 2009

Fox News Channel said popular cable TV host Bill O'Reilly will step down as the host of his syndicated talk radio show early next year. ...more

December 5, 2008

The big difference between Stephen Colbert and Bill O'Reilly: Colbert is only pretending to be a pompous windbag. ...more

November 21, 2008