Richard Allard of New Port Richey says ordinary people will pay the cost of the cap-and-trade program the federal government is proposing to reduce carbon emissions. ...more

April 8, 2009

Fred Palensar of Holiday said people should should take a break from the current dilemmas to focus on the message of Easter. ...more

April 8, 2009

A man died Tuesday morning, trapped in a burning van outfitted as a camper and parked at a Wal-Mart Supercenter. ...more

March 31, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies are investigating a structure at a Valrico church that the pastor calls a "makeshift lynching station." ...more

March 30, 2009

When the Titanic first hit the iceberg the people were in denial that this mighty ship could not fail, thinking that even God could not sink her. It is said that if a few things had been done, many more souls would have been saved. Things like: if all of the life boats had been filled, if wooden doors had been removed and grouped together or if the captain had allowed the ship to travel at its correct speed, the iceberg could have been avoided and all would have survived. ...more

March 21, 2009

So Dale Gillis (Christianity vs. Rapturism, March 3) has concluded that since some so-called "Rapturists" are reading "The Secrets of Enoch" (which almost no one considers authoritative), all belief in the Rapture is bogus. Does anyone else see a rending of the laws of logic here? It matters little that a trifling handful of so-called Rapturists (who believe that Jesus will one day remove his church from the Earth before cleansing and preparing it for his return to rule and reign) are wacky in other areas. That doesn't cancel the orthodoxy of a belief they rightly maintain in another. Indeed, a huge component of biblical Christianity has long been convinced that passages such as 1 Thes' 4:15-17 speak clearly of a gathering of God's people, dead and alive, out of the world to be "with the Lord" prior to the cataclysmic judgments of the Tribulation. The Apostle Paul believed this, and he wrote long before 1950. His followers don't typically read "The Secrets of Enoch." Nor do they deserve a tarring with Mr. Gillis' broad brush. ...more

March 10, 2009

As hard as he tried to acknowledge the separation that now exists between himself and the Buccaneers, Derrick Brooks couldn't quite pull it off Friday. The leader in him just wouldn't allow it. ...more

February 28, 2009

The worlds of two people were forever altered the morning of Feb. 19. ...more

February 28, 2009

What are you thinking, Bucs management? First John Lynch, now Derrick Brooks, the heart, soul and backbone of our Bucs and this community. Ditto for Warrick Dunn. ...more

February 28, 2009

I've been reading the newspapers and watching the news reports on TV about President Obama and his stimulus package. Everyone who is against the plan seems to have forgotten why we're in the position we're in now, but no one wants to put the blame where it really is. ...more

February 17, 2009