Starting New Year's Day, a lot of anglers will be reeling in speckled trout while nursing their hangovers. ...more

December 27, 2009

$100 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And Hillsborough County, after intense national competition, is one of four winners of this grant whose intent is to improve teacher effectiveness and ultimately to improve student achievement. ...more

December 13, 2009

After the brutal attack and a dramatic rescue in a Hillsborough County jail last week, a lot of people are questioning the wisdom of putting a lone deputy in a jail pod with dozens of inmates. ...more

November 11, 2009

A coalition of more than 30 privacy rights groups has asked the federal government to suspend use of whole-body imaging technology at U.S. airports. ...more

June 4, 2009

Big patches of empty seats under the Atlanta Motor Speedway press box Sunday prompted Jeff Gordon to say he was "a little baffled." ...more

March 8, 2009

Automobile dealers are in a huge sales slump, a fact obvious to all observers. While there are many economic reasons for the lack of sales, there also is a self-inflicted one: Dealer fees running as high as $699 are unprecedented in any other area of our economy. Your shoes are not priced at $100 with a $10 "handling fee" added when you approach the cash register. ...more

January 11, 2009

As Andrew Friedman and the rest of the Rays' front-office crew rolls into the Bellagio hotel today for baseball's winter meetings, one thing is certain: They won't draw any of those good-luck-with-that glances that might have been offered up in silent sympathy the past couple of years. ...more

December 7, 2008

It wasn't exactly Barack Obama at Grant Park, but observers agreed Tuesday's swearing-in of Kevin Beckner as Hillsborough County's first openly gay commissioner was historic. ...more

November 19, 2008

It wasn't exactly Obama at Grant Park, but observers agreed Tuesday's swearing in of Kevin Beckner as Hillsborough County's first openly gay county commissioner was historic and precedent-setting. ...more

November 18, 2008

Susan Gardner's victory in Tuesday's election proved that money doesn't always win elections. ...more

November 5, 2008