Pressured by Congress to release by year's end information collected on air safety from thousands of pilots, NASA played a trick on everyone. ...more

January 4, 2008

Administrative Folly Regarding "Suppressing Speech On Campus Hurts University's Prestige" (Our Opinion, Dec. 13): ...more

December 22, 2007

Your recent editorial in the Tribune concerning contract negotiations with the Tampa firefighters reported information that is inaccurate and misleading. The Tribune editorial, "By Demanding 10 Percent Raise, City Firefighters Insult Taxpayers" (Our Opinion, Dec. 14),claims "government unions have lost all sense of economic reality." ...more

December 19, 2007

An open letter to the School Board and superintendent of Highlands County: I am writing this letter to express my dissatisfaction in regard to the school board's offer to raise the Educational Support Professionals salary by 2 percent. Due to circumstances beyond our association's control, we have been working under last year's contract until Nov. 9, when the school board/superintendent presented this "offer," and I use that term loosely. I understand that the district has the authority and responsibility to set aside a certain percent of monies for employee's salaries (raises). What I don't understand is the reasoning behind their only offering us a 2 percent raise especially considering that the teacher's got at least an 8 percent raise over 2 years, and administrators received 3 percent raise for the current year. ...more

November 30, 2007

In regard to the recent article in the Tampa Tribune about Sen. Grassley's inquiry into mega churches financial information, you quote Alick Clark, a board member from Without Walls International Church. He states "I'm sorry to see all this happening. How many of these guys would be in ministry if there was no money in it? Not many, I can tell you." That statement says it all! ...more

November 22, 2007

Dolores Amoriello of Hudson doesn't care who Charley Reese is planning to vote for in 2008. ...more

November 14, 2007

but no more. I pay three times the taxes of homesteaders. I can no longer afford it. Place after place is for sale, and it's little wonder. ...more

November 3, 2007

Myanmar's military government ordered the expulsion of the top U.N. diplomat in the country Friday in response to the envoy's criticism of the regime. ...more

November 3, 2007

Joe Torre grew up in Brooklyn rooting against the Dodgers. Now, a half-century after they moved west, he's their manager. ...more

November 2, 2007

Come on Mayor Katsanis, those beautiful sabal palms planted on Interlake Boulevard look like Disney World! Don't insult the lovely addition to Lake Placid. We're only part-time residents of this area, and if we wanted to go to Disney World, we would have stopped at Orlando. But Lake Placid is our winter home of choice for the very that it isn't Disney World. ...more

November 2, 2007