The Transitions Championship begins first-round tournament play today at Innisbrook Resort's Copperhead, a course often praised as one of the PGA Tour's most wide-ranging tests of shot-making skill. ...more

March 19, 2009

I found a great deal of interesting reading in the paper last week. I read that Steve Chapman is offering corn-fed Iowa some of Illinois' overabundance of indicted officials, as a bonus offering them Lake Michigan and a baseball team. I suppose every state could find some things it would be willing to offer, in a reasonable exchange! The whole country is in a meltdown. Another thing I read was the revelation that Floridians give President Obama high approval ratings. Now, I know that many of us are retirees on fixed incomes, and we are grateful for any freebies we can get, but are we willing to have them charged to our children and great-grandchildren? Who is going to pay these bills when they come due? A few trillion dollars would seem to be quite a chunk of change! ...more

February 24, 2009

Researchers may have taken another step toward a day when doctors can use microscopic spheres to destroy cancer cells from within. A team of scientists at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have used a tiny structured dubbed a "targeted" nanosphere to kill melanoma cells in laboratory mice. ...more

February 4, 2009

'User' Tax A Remedy Jump-starting the economy should not be as difficult as it seems. Most economists agree that the mortgage crisis is one cause, if not the main one. A one-cent increase in the state or county sales tax could be a sure remedy. ...more

January 9, 2009

Thousands of football fans will converge on the Tampa Bay area for Super Bowl week in February, and they'll need a place to stay. ...more

November 8, 2008

I've been watching Jon Stewart skewer coverage of the Democratic National Convention, and it's easy to understand why he has become more popular than any real TV news anchor. ...more

August 29, 2008

The long furrows of churned earth and mangled grass stretch for a half mile in places. Muddy water pools in the deepest gashes. ...more

August 29, 2008

The long furrows of churned earth and mangled grass stretch for a half mile in places. Muddy water pools in the deepest gashes. ...more

August 29, 2008

John McCain on Sunday was briefed on Tropical Storm Fay, which scuttled a political fundraiser and is threatening to reach Florida as soon as today. ...more

August 18, 2008

After teaching for 27 years, Patricia Carter has no plans to leave the classroom when she is eligible for retirement in three years. ...more

July 22, 2008