Regarding "Medicaid Shields Nursing Home Reputations at Patients' Expense" (Our Opinion, Dec. 30: ...more

January 4, 2008

Show Some Compassion Christmas in our society is the premier holiday of the year. It's the season of giving and thinking of the less fortunate. But are compassionate people becoming an evaporating core? ...more

December 25, 2007

The CIA videotaped its interrogations of two top terror suspects in 2002 and destroyed the tapes three years later out of fear they would leak to the public and compromise the identities of U.S. questioners, the director of the agency told employees Thursday. ...more

December 7, 2007

EDITOR'S NOTE: This occasional series spotlights leaders of civic organizations and charities. This week's column features Mary Alice Hendricks, executive director of the Pregnancy Care Center of Plant City, 304 N. Collins St. Contact the agency at (813) 759-0886 or www.plantcitypregnancycenter.org. ...more

November 7, 2007

A few years ago, while visiting the Tribune editorial board, former Rep. Sam Gibbons, Hillsborough County's longtime congressman and a World War II veteran, mentioned how relieved he was when two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in August 1945. His feelings were shared by millions of servicemen who would have been part of a planned invasion of the Japanese islands. ...more

November 6, 2007

A House Democrat accused Republicans on Thursday of sending troops to Iraq to 'get their heads blown off for the president's amusement.' ...more

October 19, 2007