The Tampa Tribune said Tuesday that it will lay off 11 newsroom staffers this week with another 10 news jobs to be eliminated by early fall. ...more

July 1, 2008

For $22,500, once again, God can walk among the people of Tampa. After an agreement between prosecutors and a defense attorney, Judge Walter Heinrich Jr. today reduced the bail of 39-year-old God Lucky Howard from $86,500 to $22,500. ...more

June 30, 2008

Fantasy baseball leagues can keep using the names and statistics of major league players without licensing agreements. ...more

June 3, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - A man and two teenagers were arrested this morning after they robbed a St. Petersburg Times deliveryman, taking his minivan, and led police on a pursuit, St. Petersburg police say. ...more

May 29, 2008

I am a director in an association where there is a disagreement between directors. We have a security problem with teenage boys after school. Our board has voted to hire an off-duty policeman to enforce rules and regulations. One director, one of the officers, overrides any vote he does not like and orders the property manager not to implement the directions of the board. ...more

February 9, 2008

The local officials and newspapers are bashing Amendment One, but the state and the people want local officials to reduce spending to get the taxes under control. But, what do our local commissioners do just in the last couple of weeks? They create four new director positions at salaries ranging from $65,000 to $123,000. They don't care what we the people want or what the state says needs to be done. They snub their noses at the governor and legislature. Hopefully, our state officials will stand up like men and women and force these out-of-control politicians to do what the people want. If not, you will see more leaving Florida than coming. ...more

January 29, 2008

Dumbing Down When I was in high school in the late 1960s, schools graduated students who could read and write at a 12th-grade level. They could also make change for a dollar. ...more

January 27, 2008

READABILITY: The dim, dishwater-gray screen can be difficult to read except in the best light. The screen makes an annoying "flash" when moving from one page to the next. A uniform typeface is used for all text. Slow keyboard display. ...more

December 30, 2007

The operators of the Highlands County recycling program are not making it easy, especially for seniors, to recycle their newspapers and magazines. The sliding doors on the old rusted dumpsters are so hard to open that some seniors cannot open them at all. Also it was published in the local papers several weeks ago that you could now dump magazines and office paper in the same dumpsters with newspapers, however these dumpsters are still labeled "Newspapers only." ...more

December 28, 2007

After what seemed like months of a hectic schedule the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly were enjoying a relaxing evening in the parsonage living room catching up on a pile of newspapers. It is amazing to me how much the new news is like the old news, which only increases my admiration for those who write the news. ...more

December 4, 2007