Five years ago, schools needed to keep teachers like Lourene Weiss. Families poured into Florida and overwhelmed public schools at a time when voters demanded limits on how big class sizes could get. This left the state in need of tens of thousands of teachers, and Weiss was planning to retire. ...more

December 7, 2008

End Of An Era When the residents of Lexington fired on the British troops, there was no appreciation for the moment defining the nation's birth pangs. Yet it did. And when "the shot heard round the world" was iconized, that space and its many actors gained immortality. ...more

October 19, 2008

Wall Street turmoil left John McCain defending his support for privately investing Social Security money in the same markets that had tanked earlier in the week. ...more

September 20, 2008

School district officials and unions for teachers and blue-collar workers agreed to a 2 percent step pay increase Friday, retroactive to July 1. ...more

September 13, 2008

This month marks Social Security's 73rd birthday - placing it eight years past standard retirement age. But, despite the program's $10-trillion-plus dollar shortfall, no politician dares to suggest that this disastrous program be phased out and retired; all agree on one absolute: Social Security must be saved. While the program may have financial problems, virtually everyone believes that some form of mandatory government-run retirement program is morally necessary. ...more

August 18, 2008

The system for funding Social Security is "a disgrace" because it forces young Americans to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said this week, wading into politically touchy territory. ...more

July 10, 2008

The Friday Morning Musicale will have its Silver Scholarship Tea on Sunday. ...more

January 19, 2008

Pain often follows change, and so it is with Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio's proactive plan to restructure the way the city does business. ...more

November 17, 2007

The Tampa Woman's Club has several public activities planned at its clubhouse, 2901 Bayshore Blvd., including: ...more

October 13, 2007

When Charlene Johnston sat down to write her life story, there was one anecdote she knew she had to include. ...more

September 19, 2007