A little seasoning never hurt. Jim Bates, the new man for the Bucs defense, is 30 years older than his new boss. ...more

January 23, 2009

"Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination," by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann (Counterpoint, $33) ...more

January 18, 2009

Congressional leaders and the White House agreed Sunday to a $700 billion rescue of the ailing financial industry after lawmakers insisted on sharing spending controls with the Bush administration. The biggest U.S. bailout in history won the tentative support of both presidential candidates and goes to the House for a vote Monday. ...more

September 28, 2008

Thanks for reporting the serious problems facing our state universities, their students and Florida's economy ('U.S. News' Latest Reports Shows State's Universities Are Slipping,' Our Opinion, Aug. 25). In a nutshell, our state universities are overcrowded (Florida has five of the nations 15 largest universities), increasingly under-funded, and as you have noted, slipping in the quality of the education provided to their students who are increasingly packed into excessively large classes with graduate assistants and part-time instructors replacing more qualified professors, a shortage of academic advisers and increased time required for graduation. All of this casts a long shadow on the quality of the education that we provide our students, the economic future of our state, and is deeply disappointing to all of us who have worked over the years to provide our state and its students with a superior state university system and a stronger state economy. ...more

September 12, 2007