A Tampa Tribune story posted on TBO.com about Hillsborough County's plan to install red light cameras this summer and a proposal to expand Temple Terrace's one-year program from two intersections to possibly four or five generated a flurry of comments. ...more

March 18, 2009

Settle down, supporters of President-elect Barack Obama. The headline above is not a prediction of what the Obama administration, backed by a solidly Democratic Congress, will accomplish. We've learned from decades of political observing not to place much value in the campaign promises of presidential candidates. They haven't help much when trying to predict what they will do once in the Oval Office. ...more

November 8, 2008

Veterans packed City Hall on Monday to protest one of their own, City Council President Luis Lopez. ...more

October 15, 2008

People who live near the former Moonlight Bay Mobile Home Park say they put up with a lot of unpleasantness for a long time. So when they woke Thursday to loud clanging and shattering glass, the reaction was "What now?" When they came out to see what was happening, their fear turned to joy. They saw workmen removing hazardous building materials from the homes. ...more

October 11, 2008

Valerie Iengo of Port Richey says the nation's economic problems are severe, contradicting Ernest Lane's letter "No Crisis." ...more

January 29, 2008

Taft-Hartley, McCain-Feingold, Reaganomics. ...more

January 15, 2008

Neither strong wind nor high flames bothered Nin the cat during a dozen years patrolling the Northeast's highest peak as mascot of the Mount Washington Observatory. ...more

December 30, 2007

For some people, potty training is a breeze. I once met a mom who told me that her daughter just decided at 20 months that she wanted to go on the potty and that was it. I think I had a more typical experience. I had to hunker down for a full week until my eldest would go on the potty, and it took a couple more weeks to get her out of diapers during the day, followed by a month or two before she could wake up dry. For me, it was a lot of work. ...more

October 11, 2007