The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry. ...more

March 20, 2009

More than 100 students showed up at Wiregrass High School on Tuesday night to watch the presidential debate and talk politics. ...more

October 12, 2008

It didn't take much of an imagination as Lisa Shasteen walked through the dust, hanging wires and paint cans in the old Floridan Hotel to sense the strains of a Tommy Dorsey tune, the clinking of cocktail glasses, the alluring aroma of cigarette smoke wafting across the air. ...more

July 24, 2008

LAKELAND - Former Polk County Commissioner Marlene Young, a fixture in Polk County political and civic life for a quarter century, died early Thursday from injuries suffered in a car crash Wednesday night. She was 58. ...more

May 22, 2008

When John F. Kennedy ran for president in 1960, many Americans had serious reservations about electing a Roman Catholic to the presidency. ...more

December 14, 2007

Roman Catholic voters and lawmakers must heed church teaching on issues ranging from racism to abortion or risk their eternal salvation, U.S. bishops said Wednesday. ...more

November 15, 2007

More than 300 community leaders turned out Aug. 28 to honor Mayor Rick Lott and his wife, Di, for their service to Plant City. ...more

September 5, 2007