With the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and the enormous national economic stimulus package that has been promised to come immediately after, Mayor Scott McPherson thinks the time is right to work on some national name recognition for the city. McPherson announced at the Jan. 6 City Council meeting he has decided to attend the 77th winter meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, to be held Jan. 17 - 19 in Washington, D.C. ...more

January 14, 2009

skinny, skeezy, looks like a lost member of Jethro Tull? - must have represented some male ideal at some point, but that is a memory we have repressed. The big toe was surely never the "magnificent erotic organ" it was made out to be. ...more

January 13, 2009

Despite the nation's reputation as a rootless society, only about one in 10 Americans moved in the last year - roughly half the proportion that changed residences as recently as four decades ago, census data show. ...more

January 7, 2009

The war in Iraq has given the Nature Coast Coalition for Peace and Justice plenty to protest in the last five years. ...more

January 6, 2009

Is it time for conservatives to give up our fight against Big Government? ...more

January 5, 2009

You're standing in line at a deli behind two day laborers fumbling with cash and struggling with English, when the clerk begins spewing hatred. Go back to your country, he says, or go eat at Taco Bell. ...more

January 5, 2009

Un acuerdo de último momento entre Time Warner y Viacom salva más de 10 canales de TV para los suscriptores de Bright House ...more

January 2, 2009

I saw the cartoon in this morning's paper regarding all the persons and institutions who have been regularly denigrating President Bush the past eight years: Dan Rather the disgraced CBS anchor who couldn't take the heat of criticism; Nancy Pelosi, the mistress of vacuous statements and for us, unfortunately, the Speaker of the House; Harry Reid, the double dealing Senate Majority Leader; The New York Times, one of the most un-American newspapers in the country; MSNBC representing the left-biased television media and of course, Hollywood, the land of make-believe and immorality. ...more

January 1, 2009

A woman employed by a Washington lobbying firm with a Tampa connection has filed a $27 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for an article about her and Sen. John McCain. ...more

December 31, 2008

Selected from a pool of 3,200 applicants, Pasco County Libraries director Linda Allen was one of 10 librarians nationwide to win this year's Carnegie Corp. of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award. ...more

December 27, 2008