The city has decided not to appeal a federal court judge's ruling that Bright House Networks didn't violate the law by switching local government stations to a higher tier in the cable line-up. Two years ago, Tampa and St. Petersburg filed companion lawsuits in U.S. District Court challenging the regional cable provider's decision to move public, education and government access, or PEG channels, from their existing spots on the dial. ...more

January 21, 2009

This civil court war is over. Joan Kennedy Biddle, who sued the city this year to collect $22 million for a Civil War-era debt owed to her great-grandfather plus 147 years' worth of interest, has given up the fight. ...more

May 31, 2008

Even Jack Kerouac's most ardent devotees will find something new in "Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road," a new book published by The New York Public Library and Scala Publishers, London. ...more

November 18, 2007