The Henry B. Plant Museum will have two special events within the next two weeks. ...more

October 21, 2009

Visit the dynamic Tampa Bay History Center and you'll quickly appreciate the importance - and excitement - of the region's past, which featured palmetto scrub cowboys, civil rights marchers, Seminole warriors and immigrant cigarmakers. ...more

February 10, 2009

Bob Bondi, who served on the Hillsborough County Commission and school board for a dozen years in the 1960s and '70s, died today of a heart attack. ...more

November 26, 2008

Hillsborough County residents said it with their votes. Environmental lands are important to them and they want them protected. ...more

November 9, 2008

State starts its Conservation and Recreational Lands program, known as CARL, prompting then-Hillsborough County Commissioner Jan Platt to work toward a local land-preservation program. ...more

October 17, 2008

If this quintet of clueless bobblehead dolls had their way, the Nobel Peace Prize would be named after Pol Pot, the Pulitzers after Clifford Irving, the MacArthur genius grants after Archie Bunker. ...more

October 4, 2008

Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman's proposal to rename the Moral Courage Award after the late Ralph Hughes is now reality. Norman's had, as we know, worse ideas, but this one is bad. Unless political agenda is somehow synonymous with moral courage. ...more

September 24, 2008

Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman's proposal to rename the Moral Courage Award after the late Ralph Hughes is now reality. Norman's had, as we know, worse ideas, but this one is bad. Unless political agenda is somehow synonymous with moral courage. If there had to be any kind of name change, then it would have been more appropriate to have called it the Gadfly Award, which often applies, or maybe the Self-Interest Award, which also has applied in the past. Or simply an Attaboy Award for those who merely do their job, but do it well enough. ...more

September 22, 2008

Another half-baked idea by Commissioner Jim Norman is to rename the county's moral courage award for the late Ralph Hughes, a wealthy business owner who advocated tirelessly for lower taxes and less regulation. ...more

September 17, 2008

This year's recipient of Hillsborough County's Moral Courage Award said renaming the award for the late conservative activist and businessman Ralph Hughes will bog down the honor in never-ending controversy. ...more

September 17, 2008