The newspaper has been the informational conduit in our lives since the beginning of the United States of America. In our nation's infancy, the newspaper was small - as small as one side of one page, but what a colossal impact such a small print space had on the development and preservation of this nation. ...more

March 25, 2009

W hile the rest of the world wonders what is going to save it from economic ruin, Tampa's salvation rises on Adamo Drive. ...more

March 22, 2009

Bobby Bowden is an icon in Tallahassee and he remains that way forever despite the NCAA ruling, writes Joe Henderson. ...more

March 11, 2009

Is the Republican Party racist? Are you a cretin if you carry your dog in the back of a truck? Does the fashion trend that calls for young men to wear pants four sizes too big signal the end of the civilized world? You can explore these and plenty of other topics on Thinking Out Loud, the Tribune editorial department's blog. ...more

March 1, 2009

Well, there's still the game tonight, although after Super Bowl Week the game is almost anti-climatic. Most of the interest seems to lean in the direction of how good the commercials might be. ...more

February 1, 2009

On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called "Now We Know How Israel Feels." In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Mo., a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough. ...more

January 7, 2009

Politics are a lot like sports, and there's not much difference between fans and political supporters. Sometimes in the zeal of supporting their team or candidate, they can be downright silly - and mean. That's going on at the national and local levels. ...more

October 12, 2008

Every so often, not just every four years, but in a seemingly endless succession of election years, we're deluged, bombarded, and swamped with political posturing and pontificating. Each side tries to convince us poor ignorant peasants that their candidate walks on water and will make the civilized world safe from all predators while their opponent, if elected, will bring us to the brink of extinction. ...more

September 13, 2008

I want to congratulate The Tampa Tribune for the Oct. 12 editorial 'Helping Those With No Complaints Wrong Way To Spell Tax Relief.' The tax system has created enormous disparities between citizens who are equals, and the new solution is not only to keep this disparity in place, but to allow people that already have an unfair advantage to keep this advantage forever. ...more

October 15, 2007