Thinking back, it seems preposterous that the Tampa Bay Lightning once won the Stanley Cup. ...more

November 27, 2009

It took another guitar player's injury to get Todd Rundgren to pick up his six-string again. ...more

March 26, 2009

Even an optimist like Gov. Charlie Crist recognizes when times are tough. But on Tuesday he predicted a better future for Florida if lawmakers can put political differences aside and work together to create jobs, promote clean energy and keep schools strong. ...more

March 3, 2009

Bob Fransen of New Port Richey says U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is right when he says America is a "nation of cowards" on racial matters -- but not in the way Holder imagines. ...more

February 28, 2009

For the life of me I cannot figure out the way people think. Here we have a man who himself admitted to having used cocaine, our President Barack Obama. Then we have a swimmer, Michael Phelps, who has won more gold medals than would fit on my mantle, smoking pot and we all but crucify him. Where is the logic in this? ...more

February 12, 2009

Congratulations to the Tribune and other media outlets for helping bring House Speaker Ray Sansom his just reward. He had nerve to blame the media for his downfall when he has no one but himself to blame. ...more

February 5, 2009

Celine Dion's stage sat in the center of the Forum floor Wednesday night like a boxing ring. She entered the arena, in fact, surrounded by an entourage, not unlike a fighter about to enter the ring. ...more

January 29, 2009

As the most-watched, most-quoted, most-photographed person to play quarterback at the University of Florida, Tim Tebow doesn't often have to share the stage. He pretty much owns any room he enters, and it has been that way from the moment he signed his scholarship until now. ...more

January 8, 2009

A single dive does not make a season, and Avon Park's John Chittum has proved that he belongs with the top divers around, even if the end results didn't turn out the way he envisioned. ...more

January 4, 2009

In the first year of his presidency George W. Bush was forced to confront the crisis of global terrorism. He responded by aggrandizing his power as president under the theory of a "unitary executive." The controversial and thoroughly repudiated policies that resulted, including warrantless surveillance of Americans' phone conversations, torture, and disregard for the basic constitutional rights of detainees, represented the most sweeping assertion of unchecked executive power in generations. ...more

January 3, 2009