By all indicators, Raquel Torres should be cleaning houses. And that's only if she had stayed out of a drug gang. ...more

November 1, 2009

Almost 40 percent of the nation's 18- to 24-year-olds in 2008 were enrolled in college, a record number, according to a Pew Research Center report released last week. The rise was driven almost entirely by a surge in students attending community colleges. ...more

November 1, 2009

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is going on the offensive against news organizations and bloggers she says are perpetuating malicious gossip about her and her children. ...more

January 21, 2009

Some of the county's high school dropouts will soon be logging on to earn their diplomas. ...more

December 10, 2008

The mural looks like a portrait of life here, an 8 foot-by-2 foot hand-printed acrylic work with at least two dozen symbols of Zephyrhills. ...more

November 18, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A proposed charter school that would target high school dropouts may have to delay its plans. ...more

November 13, 2008

Attitudes Must Change After watching the CNN series, "Black in America," I would like to say that with the time allotted and the vastness of the black experience in America, a very good job was done. We must start somewhere and rather than degrade the first step, we must help prepare the second step. ...more

September 10, 2008

Edgar K. Browning, professor of economics at Texas A&M University, has a new book aptly titled "Stealing from Each Other." Its subtitle, "How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit," goes to the heart of what the book is about. The rise of equalitarian ideology has driven Americans to steal from one another. Browning explains that certain kinds of equality have been a cherished value in America. Equality under the law and, within reason, equality of opportunity is consistent with a free society. Equality of results is an anathema to a free society and within it lie the seeds of tyranny. ...more

August 11, 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, 28 public and more than a dozen private high school graduation ceremonies are scheduled across Hillsborough County. ...more

May 28, 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, 28 public and more than a dozen private high-school graduation ceremonies are scheduled across Hillsborough County. ...more

May 28, 2008