So, has presidential candidate Barack Obama been "talking down to black people" as civil rights icon Jesse Jackson uttered into a "hot mic" on the Fox News Channel? Judging by the enthusiastic response Obama received when he spoke last week before the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the answer is no. ...more

July 20, 2008

Of all the things Annika Sorenstam has done in golf, this is not one of them. ...more

June 28, 2008

Limited-edition, 16-month calendar will go on sale June 30. ...more

June 26, 2008

Elusive ancestors are easier to find if we understand the circumstances and times in which they lived. Maps can give you a visual perspective of those earlier wandering relatives. ...more

June 1, 2008

When the deal went down to have Weeki Wachee become a state park, there was a collective sigh of relief from all the park's employees. ...more

February 18, 2008

When the deal went down to have Weeki Wachee become a state park, there was a collective sigh of relief from all the park's employees. ...more

February 17, 2008

Authorities arrested dozens of people Thursday in a sweeping Mafia takedown aimed at closing the book on decades-old gangland killings and other crimes and knocking out what's left of the once-mighty Gambino family. ...more

February 8, 2008

For eight decades, Tampa Garden Club members have taught horticulture to children, meticulously judged plants, hosted flower shows, delivered potted plants to veterans and swapped the best secrets for growing roses. ...more

January 30, 2008

If you look at the history of the women's movement, it appears to ebb and flow. Intense periods of protests - such as the 1920s, when women won the right to vote - are followed by dormant periods of seeming contentment with the status quo. The 1960s and '70s was a feminist heyday, marked by Betty Freidan, the birth control pill, Roe v. Wade and the drive to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. I was a young woman in my 20s then, living in Philadelphia and, later, Los Angeles, when women earned 49 cents for every man's dollar. I remember the rallies, consciousness-raising sessions and National Organization of Women meetings, selfishly hoping to be the beneficiary of improved job opportunities and equal pay. ...more

January 26, 2008

Unappreciative Of Art Regarding "Your Name Could Adorn Tampa's Art" (Metro, Dec. 22): ...more

January 1, 2008