It's time to turn around America, and we need to start here in Florida. Our state is already economic-distress ground zero: shrinking home values, expanding unemployment, growing piles of unpaid bills on working families' tables. It's no surprise the economy has overtaken the war in Iraq as the top concern of Americans. ...more

February 20, 2008

After spending two weeks on Indian Rocks Beach during the Christmas holidays and reading Mike Salinero's article "How Green Are We?" (Dec. 22) my answer would have to be "Not nearly green enough." I grew up in Pinellas County, but I live in Norway. ...more

January 22, 2008

Regarding an article in the Tampa Tribune titled "Vaccination Prioritized for the flu." It is about who will receive the flu shots if a super-strain of flu triggers the next pandemic. The government has pregnant women and babies first, government workers next, and way down at the bottom are seniors (at the end of the line.) It was only a matter of time until the government figured a solution to fix Social Security, let the old die! ...more

October 26, 2007