With regards to Keith Bricklemyer's (a land use attorney) comments in "Wetlands Division A Redundancy" (Views, March 21): It was Shakespeare who once wrote those immortal words, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Has anyone ever noticed the overwhelming majority of those who write in protest about the Environmental Protection Commission are developers, land use attorneys, and those individuals with large parcels of land that just happen to be predominately composed of wetlands, not uplands? ...more

March 26, 2009

New tax incentives to coax automakers into producing electric cars won't help consumers right away. The way to help now would be to make roads safer for the small electric vehicles currently available. ...more

March 14, 2009

State environmental regulars must have their heads stuck in clay. More than two years after private developers filed an application for a permit to develop a large garbage landfill on the edge of the Green Swamp in east Pasco County, the project, incredibly, remains a possibility. ...more

February 9, 2009

WASHINGTON - Gay rights advocates are criticizing President-elect Barack Obama's choice of a popular evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, saying it shows disrespect for a constituency that strongly supported his campaign. ...more

December 18, 2008

Jobs would be lost in the transition to a cleaner economy, but many new ones would be created. ...more

June 9, 2008

Protecting the environment is a noble cause, although the consequences can be costly. ...more

May 13, 2008

If you're a government apparatchik, seeing Hillsborough County commissioner and resident board parson Brian Blair barging through the door has to be the paper-pusher equivalent of the pol who came to dinner meets Mongo from "Blazing Saddles." ...more

February 5, 2008

Residents' vision of Safety Harbor's future became a hot topic when candidates for two City Commission seats debated the issues Tuesday night at City Hall. The forum was sponsored by the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce and League of Woman Voters. ...more

January 18, 2008

One of the memorable moments in Alice's journey through Wonderland is the twisted conversation in which Humpty Dumpty declares, 'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.' ...more

October 29, 2007