President Obama may have made the right decision when he lifted the Bush-era restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research. ...more

March 11, 2009

The Orange County Sheriff's Office has reassigned the deputy who responded to an Orlando meter reader's repeated phone calls to check out woods where a missing Florida toddler's body eventually was found. ...more

January 15, 2009

If the presidential campaign debate were a reliable gauge of the nation's problems, the country would be practically free of crime. Neither Barack Obama nor John McCain is paying sufficient attention to criminal justice. In some ways, the issue may seem like a throwback to 1992, when murder rates were spiking nationwide. Yet it is worth recalling New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's warning just last year that Americans have a much greater chance of being killed by crime than by a terror strike. ...more

October 12, 2008

Why, there hasn't been this much weeping and wailing since Debra Winger checked out in "Terms of Endearment." ...more

August 31, 2008

It looks like Hillsborough County's public art program might be on the chopping block. ...more

July 30, 2008

It looks like Hillsborough County's public art program might be on the chopping block. ...more

July 30, 2008

In my earlier life, the Reader's Digest frequently gave me emotional indigestion with its periodic threats of global warming, planetary freezing, famines, pestilences, epidemics, international calamities and a plethora of other scourges, most of which came to no greater semblance of fruition than the promises exchanged in a shipboard romance. ...more

June 8, 2008

"Security" is the power career word for 2008. It translates into dozens of career opportunities offering growth and excitement. It also crosses all industry and organizational barriers. If you've never considered this exciting field, there is no better time to investigate its niche specialties. ...more

December 30, 2007

Florida's most important issues got short shrift during Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube presidential debate in St. Petersburg, but with the Iowa caucuses just five weeks away, the showdown better clarified the differences between the Republican frontrunners. ...more

November 30, 2007

There was plenty of show but little time for telling county planners how residents want the area to develop. ...more

October 27, 2007