Richard Allard of New Port Richey says ordinary people will pay the cost of the cap-and-trade program the federal government is proposing to reduce carbon emissions. ...more

April 8, 2009

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Girl-meets-boy stories are not the usual stuff of Hollywood blockbusters, even when it's girl-meets-vampire. Neither are stories created by women, with a predominantly female audience, shot on a bargain budget with a cast of relative unknowns and released by an independent distributor trying to establish a niche among Hollywood's half-dozen studio behemoths. ...more

November 17, 2008

Regarding "Hillsborough School Employees Strike Deal For 2% Raise" (Metro, Sept. 13): ...more

September 17, 2008

As students throughout Florida settle into the new school year, the time has come for lawmakers and education policymakers to address the looming gifted education crisis. ...more

September 13, 2008

Eighty-nine bucks is hardly a pittance to pay for a meal for two, but in the world of prime steakhouses and market-price seafood restaurants, it may qualify as a "value meal." ...more

July 25, 2008

Eighty-nine bucks is hardly a pittance to pay for a meal for two, but in the world of prime steakhouses and market-price seafood houses, it may qualify as a "value meal." Faced with a tough economy, some fine-dining establishments around the Bay area have begun offering discounted fare, either through summer-long specials or dining clubs with price breaks. Fleming's Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar has a $99 filet-and-lobster combo for two, while Brazilian steakhouse Boizao has created an E-Club offering Internet specials. ...more

July 24, 2008

Nothing New Offered Regarding "There Are Better Alternatives To Drilling For More Oil" (Other Views, May 30): ...more

June 9, 2008

When things go awry at the voting booth, as they have several times in this hectic primary season, much of the blame often falls on ill-trained poll workers who are paid a pittance. ...more

February 24, 2008

We have been subjected to the ads of presidential candidates for almost a year. To think that this will continue, on an increased basis, for almost another year once the primary elections are over, is enough to drive one mad. At this writing, the supposed "front runners" are sitting Congressional senators. To me this means that nothing will change in Washington if either one wins the office. Of course, they harp on the fact that they are knowledgeable, as they have been in the Senate so many years and know what is going on. They will be making all kinds of statements of what they will do for "you." I only think of what they have been doing for "us" these past many years. Such as taking $1.96 trillion from the Social Security Fund since 1968. From 1968 to 1999, ( a 12-year period), they took $830.8 billion From 2000 to 2006, they have taken $1.14 trillion. ...more

January 14, 2008

For Sherry Mulcrone, it's two little plots on shady country acreage in Palmetto. ...more

November 30, 2007