Former Hillsborough County schools Superintendent Earl Lennard will receive the Ellsworth G. Simmons Good Government Award at the April 15 county commission meeting. ...more

April 5, 2009

Longtime Hillsborough School Superintendent Earl Lennard will receive the Ellsworth G. Simmons Good Government Award at the April 15 County Commission meeting. ...more

April 2, 2009

High school seniors are working these days to meet college-application deadlines and tuition. Since 1982, according to the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college tuition and fees have increased 439 percent. That is about three times as much as the increase in median family income. ...more

January 3, 2009

The Rev. Simmie Lee Harvey, 90, a civil rights stalwart who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and helped plan the March on Washington in 1963, died Sept. 10 of complications from a stroke. ...more

September 20, 2008

Minority students are increasingly choosing graduate school as the path to success in their chosen careers, a positive development that will help to fuel economic growth all over country. The Council of Graduate Schools reported recently that minority enrollment in graduate schools increased by 2 percent last year. Minorities now make up 28 percent of total graduate school enrollment. ...more

December 27, 2007

It appears that the Democrats have a certain loathing for our military as well as our country. They are now working diligently to surrender to our enemies. It appears that Randy Ludacer is helping them in their effort by making fun of Gen. Petraeus' decorations. Maybe he thinks that these ribbons and decorations just jump up on his jacket by themselves and do not mean anything. Maybe he thinks they are like a tie pin that he could purchase at a department store or have been the prize in a box of crackerjacks. Every one of the pins and decorations means something and were earned. In other words, they are not "welfare." Of course Democrats wouldn't understand earning something as opposed to having it handed to them for their vote. ...more

September 22, 2007