Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: He says more Americans mean more swine flu. ...more

October 31, 2009

Authorities say a Clearwater woman walking her dog by a lake was bitten by an 8-foot alligator but managed to escape. ...more

September 26, 2009

I take umbrage at Fred Peters' letter on our paper's editorial page that Ford cars and especially Crown Vics used by the police have no turn signals. ...more

June 19, 2009

Kevin Harvick proved just how strong his organization is Saturday by winning the Nationwide Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway in his own race car. ...more

March 22, 2009

11:45 a.m.: As voters flow into the Fair Oaks Recreation Center, Precinct 325, all morning, 19-year-old Marquis Davis has a different mission. ...more

November 4, 2008

Today, nearly itch free, I must thank the dozens of readers who stumbled upon last week's column about being, as we say in my neck of the woods, "eat up" with poison ivy and offered their sympathies, remedies and horror stories of gigantic, oozing sores that I will never be able to remove from my brain no matter how many times I jab myself in the ear with the sharp end of a No. 2 pencil. ...more

August 3, 2008

It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record. ...more

July 7, 2008

The Tribune's June 14th editorial is yet another unnecessarily harsh jab at the public schools. ...more

June 23, 2008

House Democrats pushed through a $50 billion bill for the Iraq war Wednesday night that would require President Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008. ...more

November 15, 2007