It's unbelievable that members of the U.S. Senate on both sides of the aisle are receiving so much resistance to make low cost prescription drugs from other countries available to Americans. The same worn-out arguments still are stopping this process and all it really comes down to are pharmaceutical manufacturers not wanting lose the billions in profits. ...more

December 11, 2009

Have you noticed how interviews of Sarah Palin with Barbara Walters, Oprah and others have centered around her issues with her baby with Down syndrome and her pregnant unmarried daughter? Then the issue of her not-to-be son-in-law and his display of not-too-smart judgment, while modeling himself without clothing often tops the list. Let's review one of the most repeated questions asked of Palin, "What do you read?" ...more

December 1, 2009

Healthcare expert Jim Miller gave tips on saving money on healthcare. ...more

June 15, 2009

It took me a while to find the column. I read it and then looked at the date. It had happened on March 27, 1991, exactly 18 years ago. ...more

March 27, 2009

Tony Dungy, who retired from coaching at age 53 this year, said he always planned leave football at some point but that his son's 2005 suicide provided "a little sense of doing it a little quicker." ...more

March 3, 2009

The deserted houses and heartbroken homeowners in Florida's newest suburbs are the subject of a devastating article in the current New Yorker magazine. The selected snapshots show bleaker scenes in Hillsborough and Pasco counties than most of us who live here will recognize. ...more

February 15, 2009

A former physician who helped create a business that illegally sold $85 million worth of pain medicine over the Internet was sentenced today to four years and three months in federal prison. ...more

January 29, 2009

A cholera outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp has spread to eastern Congo's provincial capital of Goma, increasing fears of an epidemic amid a tense standoff between troops and rebels, officials said. ...more

November 11, 2008

Starkly ambitious and powerful, 2006's "Return to Cookie Mountain" was TV on the Radio's take-no-prisoners leap into the major leagues. It's doubtful the Brooklynites could match its bleak grandeur this soon after, and "Dear Science" doesn't try. ...more

October 17, 2008

Deborah Breen of New Port Richey says assistants in area medical offices are acting in an unprofessional manner by not leaving personal lives at home. ...more

August 13, 2008