An album of songs about a tawdry night out doesn't suggest grand ambitions on Franz Ferdinand's part - what else have they ever written about, really? - but at least it's something they probably know well. ...more

February 6, 2009

A school board has refused to fire a teacher over a racial slur aimed at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. ...more

October 17, 2008

This past week I volunteered for a day at the Kindergarten Learning Center in Sebring. I was amazed at this colorful, high-tech, almost magical place that gives today's kids their first taste of school. ...more

August 29, 2008

"So what do you do," I asked my schoolteacher wife, "when your entire class gets out of hand? Do you send them down to the principal's office or whack 'em in the back of the neck with a ruler, or do you just have them write down something 500 times on the blackboard?" ...more

July 28, 2008

Shawn Bull, 34, brings youth, enthusiasm and the joy of creating palatable treats to the culinary arts program at South County Career Center. ...more

February 6, 2008

Shawn Bull, 34, brings youth, enthusiasm and the joy of creating palatable treats to the culinary arts program at South County Career Center. ...more

February 4, 2008

When Madison Middle School data processor Carol Sims decided she wanted a Thomas Kinkade painting replicated in chalk on her office blackboard, advanced art student Christen Rosario was drawn to the task. ...more

January 16, 2008

Born with a rare kind of cataracts that defied treatment, Kenlyn South spent most of her life legally blind. ...more

December 13, 2007

Merit pay can be a powerful motivator for a job well done, but the new merit-pay program for Hillsborough schools has been a fiasco. ...more

September 8, 2007