Opinionated talk is big business on cable news networks when the sun goes down. But during the day, it's the complete opposite. ...more

December 28, 2009

Keith Olbermann is ready to go to jail over it. Howard Dean is assaulting the White House over it. "It" is the individual mandate, the source of rare cross-ideological agreement in the health care debate. ...more

December 23, 2009

Twenty months after Robert Wiles was kidnapped, the FBI said today that the Lakeland man is dead and his killer is in custody. ...more

December 18, 2009

President Barack Obama is calling Senate Democrats to the White House to say it's time to come together and pass legislation embracing a wholesale remodeling of America's health care system. ...more

December 15, 2009

Letters to the editor from Nov. 14 editions. ...more

November 14, 2009

Some questions I would like someone to explain to me why we are still in Iraq. President Bush told us it was to remove a human rights-violating dictator and to destroy his weapons of mass destruction. The dictator is dead. No WMDs were found. But we are still there. Obama promised change but has not delivered. ...more

November 9, 2009

Lenders are owners In your cover article on pending foreclosed properties Nov. 4, the manager of Hillsborough County Code Enforcement was quoted: "The lender doesn't own the property, so we can't legally make them maintain it." Excuse me? ...more

November 6, 2009

The recent interest over President Obama vs. Fox News is really a proxy for the real "war," which pits the bias of conservative news outlets versus traditional journalism. ...more

November 4, 2009

After reading Peter Stathis's letter, I realize that I owe an apology to the right wingers out there. ...more

October 28, 2009

'Fair and balanced' Thank God for the First Amendment, and I can choose to purchase The Tampa Tribune every day. Because of the First Amendment I chose not to purchase the other paper across the bay. That is my right. ...more

October 24, 2009