The idea of crashing and burning when giving a speech in front of a packed room may be the most frightening experience some people can imagine. ...more

March 18, 2009

TALLAHASSEE A steady downpour and gusting winds turned Florida State's football practice into an endeavor that at times bordered on the ridiculous Friday afternoon. ...more

August 22, 2008

For years, I've been pushing a "boring is better" approach to investing - the kind of strategy that adheres to the belief that so many of us make the wrong decisions when the markets are in turmoil. We're better off deciding on an asset allocation, filling up the baskets and checking it monthly - not every day. ...more

August 3, 2008

This had to be a bit like the American Civil Liberties Union blackballing historian David McCullough from giving a speech on the Fourth of July because he might mention the Declaration of Independence. ...more

May 8, 2008

As Sens. John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Sen. Barack Obama of using rhetoric that lacks specifics or fails to yield results, Obama countered on Wednesday by offering a detailed plan to spend $210 billion to create jobs in construction and environmentally friendly fields. ...more

February 14, 2008

For most of us, being able to speak, read and write English is something we use countless times every day, never really stopping to think how difficult navigating through life would be without these basic language skills. Noemy Mericle and Iris Segura Garcia don't take it for granted. They worked hard to attain that ability in this country as students in the English for Speakers of Other Languages program at St. Petersburg College. ...more

December 29, 2007

What do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro and four current Hillsborough County commissioners have in common? ...more

October 26, 2007

TAMPA - What do Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Fidel Castro and four current Hillsborough County commissioners have in common? Their likenesses all appear in an ad the Tampa Bay Community Network plans to air this weekend to raise money for a legal fund. The network is suing Hillsborough County over its decision to cut $355,000 in spending for the station from this year's budget. The network has prepared at least three fundraising ads for the court fight. The most hard-hitting is an ad that opens with images of Hitler, Stalin and Castro and then fades to pictures of the four county commissioners who voted to kill the station's stipend. ...more

October 25, 2007