Happily, some seasonal giving can be accomplished without ever visiting a store or a Web site. As we have written before, Christmas isn't Christmas - for that matter, Hanukkah isn't Hanukkah - until certain holiday wishes are bestowed on certain deserving Pasco folks. Naughty or nice, it's all the same. This Space now presents its more-or-less annual holiday gift list. ...more

December 30, 2009

Letters to the editor from Dec. 30 West Pasco print editions. ...more

December 30, 2009

Many thanks Editor: Thanks to all the people who attended our Friends of the NRA event. It drew more than 350 people, the largest number ever to attend an FNRA fundraiser and dinner in Pasco. Specials thanks in particular to Florida Senate President Jeff Atwater, who led the invocation, and former House Speaker Marco Rubio, who led the Pledge of Allegiance. ...more

December 23, 2009

Special interests won the day in Tallahassee last week. For two years, a coalition of my Florida Senate colleagues demanded that the state Department of Transportation renegotiate a sweetheart deal with CSX Railroad for a new commuter-rail line around Orlando. ...more

December 13, 2009

Anyone setting odds on Florida's chances next month to get as much as $2.6 billion in federal stimulus money to build a Tampa-to-Orlando high-speed rail line might consider this: ...more

December 10, 2009

The Florida Senate, which steadily has resisted any attempt to overturn or soften state class-size restrictions, is looking more ready to deal. ...more

November 30, 2009

With the swine flu, high unemployment and plummeting housing prices, Sun City Center has not been immune to national problems. Part-time residents here, however, can always count on cheery friends and neighbors to welcome them back every November. ...more

November 4, 2009

In what looks like a victory for the same conservative forces backing Marco Rubio in Florida, the Republican Party nominee dropped out of a special election to fill a vacant House seat in New York on Saturday. ...more

November 1, 2009

A recent article on a Florida Senate Spirit of Service Award did not mention that Sister Joan Foley had departed in 2008 as executive director of Connections job development service. She is no longer with St. Vincent de Paul Resource Center. She is volunteering with the Coalition for the Homeless at this time. ...more

August 8, 2009

The Florida Senate has passed a measure that toughens the state's seat belt law. ...more

April 28, 2009