Two North Pinellas cities, Dunedin and Oldsmar, held firm and weathered a financial storm created in late 2007 by a run of investors on the Florida Local Government Investment Pool. Now they say that decision is paying financial rewards. ...more

January 19, 2008

I understand from the news reports that the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office is overrun with rodents. Apparently they are hiring an exterminator, at taxpayer's expense, of course, to deal with this problem. ...more

January 18, 2008

An interesting feature in the online New York Times shows you "What you get for $850,000" or some other amount that seems, in a New York sense anyway, plausible for wealthy second-home buyers. Illustrations of these delicious-looking homes are accompanied by their taxes. A recent article listed taxes on an $850,000 home in Tennessee at $1,891; in Idaho, at $2,638; and in Arizona, at $2,332. ...more

January 13, 2008

The mayor of Naples appealed to angry residents Saturday to stay calm in the city's 2-week-old garbage crisis, and the prime minister called it an emergency that must be tackled quickly. ...more

January 6, 2008

Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after a judge refused to throw out his 1992 no-contest plea to fraud. ...more

January 5, 2008

A three-alarm blaze at an apartment complex Thursday forced 43 residents from their homes, county officials said. ...more

November 30, 2007

TAMPA - A three-alarm blaze at an apartment complex Thursday forced 43 residents from their homes, county officials said. ...more

November 29, 2007

Whatever one thinks of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's jurisprudence, one can only admire the way she has handled her beloved husband's surrender to Alzheimer's Disease. ...more

November 16, 2007

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met leaders of her opposition party for the first time in three years Friday and told them she was optimistic that a two-decade-long stalemate with the Myanmar government might be thawing, her spokesman said. ...more

November 10, 2007

Your editorial, 'Shooting Case Raises Concerns About District's Credibility' (Our Opinion, Sept. 30), regarding safety at King High School recognized the improvements we have made on the campus. Like all our high schools, King High has worked to reduce misbehavior that interferes with learning. Principal Carla Bruning and her staff have done an exceptional job and the proof is in the dramatic reduction in incidents and in the academic achievement worthy of celebration. ...more

October 8, 2007