No to rail Passenger light rail in Tampa will never work. Tampa ridership in numbers won't be enough to make it profitable, and commute times aren't long enough to make it worthwhile. It will end up just another taxpayer-subsidized folly. Tampa can't even make an inner-city trolly work. ...more

October 15, 2009

How can you make a statement, "Don't do as I do, but do as I say?" President Obama cost the state of Nevada hundreds of millions of dollars. ...more

June 5, 2009

Whatever became of the concept of the loyal opposition? Just a few short months into the Obama administration and the Republicans, unable to structure a rational policy for their party, are shrieking treason and disaster. ...more

May 29, 2009

Gingerlee Prettymitchell's "Words of Wisdom" published March 17 in the letters to the editor are really "Words of Folly." We can't even call them words of knowledge for she is talking about the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and claims Jefferson's words support them. ...more

March 20, 2009

With former Alaska senator Ted Stevens out of office and fighting to stay out of prison, Congress has the opportunity to end an outrageous expenditure that wastes tax dollars while defiling the largest rainforest in North America. ...more

December 13, 2008

The celebration of Mother's Day allows a chance to reflect on the challenges facing many women today juggling work, raising children and maintaining a household. Many families will celebrate the day with flowers, dinners and other tokens of appreciation. It should be a day filled with love and admiration for mothers everywhere, who all too often must overcome men's folly. ...more

May 11, 2008

Mayr Malool wrote a beautiful letter on evolution and Intelligent Design. This was followed with a thoughtful written letter by Bob Glavey who raised good points. Both these letters are topical given the proposed school board resolution on evolution. I am concerned about the misunderstandings surrounding the scientific theory. The word "theory" is confusing this important debate because it means something different in the context of science. Here, a theory must satisfy three criteria: it must explain the outcomes of many experiments, it must be tested, and it must be predictive. Newton's Theory of Gravity, for example, predicts how quickly an object will fall to the earth. ...more

February 7, 2008

Why do we love thee, Jane Austen? Let us count the ways: You gave us happy endings. The heroines of your novels live out that Cinderella fantasy every time. They may fret and flounder along the rocky road to romance, but eventually they snare Mr. Right. After more than 200 years, we still love your love stories. ...more

January 12, 2008

Administrative Folly Regarding "Suppressing Speech On Campus Hurts University's Prestige" (Our Opinion, Dec. 13): ...more

December 22, 2007

When I was growing up, a large, churchgoing family across the street used to say a rustic, rhyming grace every night before dinner that went: "Rub-a-dub-dub. Thanks for the grub. Yea, Lord." ...more

November 22, 2007