Spent the better part of a long afternoon in the county seat Wednesday, hoping to catch a serious case of old-fashioned small-town state-playoffs high-school-football fever. Came away without so much as a sniffle. ...more

December 5, 2008

You can always tell when another Tampa Super Bowl is imminent. ...more

November 19, 2008

You can always tell when another Tampa Super Bowl is imminent. The sprucing up of downtown gets serious, and there's typically a civic project or two hurrying to completion. ...more

November 19, 2008

7:25 a.m.: The polls at the New Mount Zion Baptist Church on Columbus Drive have been open for about a half-hour and about 50 people are patiently waiting in a line that stretches across the front of the church. Vilma Bell, 49, strides out and crosses the street to her car. ...more

November 4, 2008

Take a look, Philadelphia. Things have worked out just as hoped. You wanted the Rays; you got them. ...more

October 21, 2008

The Lake Padgett Estates Civic Association will meet at 7 p.m Tuesday at the LPECA Stables Facility, 22140 Coldstream Road. The guest speaker will be a representative of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, who will make a presentation of the sheriff's proposed budget. Civic Association members are working on a Neighborhood Watch program and an Autumn Civic Pride Day in the Parks. The group now has an active membership in the Pasco Alliance of Community Assocations. For more information, call Rich Gray, LPECA chairman at (813) 996-7868. ...more

July 21, 2008

Compared with this town's 625-year-old crooked church, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a model of rectitude. ...more

November 24, 2007

Baseball purists and civic-pride enthusiasts, take heart: It appears "Tampa Bay" will have a place on the Rays' redesigned uniforms - just not until 2009. ...more

November 16, 2007