Poor animals Regarding "Save the turkey" by Tony Black of Tampa (Letters, Nov. 23): I also purchase healthy foods, such as vegetables, fruits and grains, which I give to my hens. In return, I collect their eggs. However, I have no problem chopping their heads when it is time and throwing them under the broiler. ...more

November 26, 2009

Four of the seven Hillsborough School Board members were sworn in for four more years Tuesday night and applications for five more charter schools were approved for the 2009-10 school year. ...more

November 18, 2008

The strawberry won. After 20 speakers saluted the fruit, its history, its economic impact and the east Hillsborough families that have farmed it for generations, four Hillsborough school board members voted Thursday to name the new high school opening in August near Plant City "Strawberry Crest." ...more

November 7, 2008

Six students from East Bay High School wowed the Hillsborough County School Board on Tuesday, raving about their participation in presidential rallies and asking for a district policy change. ...more

October 22, 2008

Think for a minute about the challenges facing Hillsborough public schools: nearly a dozen high schools labeled as "dropout factories" because as many as 40 percent of students are left behind, a transportation quagmire that's hurt children and families, and spending practices that leave taxpayers wondering where the money goes. ...more

October 14, 2008

A charter school designed to promote peace didn't attract enough attention to open this year as planned. ...more

September 3, 2008

A state report on district transportation problems and a bus driver shortage identifies issues of the bus driver turnover rate, low driver pay, lack of benefits and incentives. ...more

August 24, 2008

even though you were promised they would "drop like a rock." You should feel hoodwinked. ...more

July 28, 2008

Travel spending by Hillsborough school board members has ignited a nasty board battle. ...more

July 23, 2008

The state Board of Education voted Tuesday to add evolution to Florida's standards for teaching science to K-12 students, but defined it as a "scientific theory," a compromise that did little to appease opponents of the plan. ...more

February 20, 2008