Lion junior centerfielder Madison Manuel shifts into gear going 3-for-3 and driving in a game-high four RBI as the HCA finally snaps its hex against county rival Springstead, 7-5. ...more

March 24, 2009

It was 10 a.m. on a Tuesday when Ray Sikorski saw his worst-case scenario coming true. ...more

March 20, 2009

It was 10 a.m. on a Tuesday when Ray Sikorski saw his worst-case scenario coming true. ...more

March 15, 2009

With the recession raging, failures are skyrocketing in Florida and the Bay area. Business bankruptcies filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court's middle district of Florida – the central, southwest and north portions of the state – rose 101 percent from calendar year 2007 to calendar year 2008. ...more

March 13, 2009

In its recent anniversary issue, the New Yorker magazine took a look at the state of affairs here in Florida. Apparently there is nothing amiss in the Empire State worthy of note. So it declares things here a real mess, thanks to the collapse of the real estate market. While it told of some foreclosure hardship tales from southwestern Florida, the ground zero of the devastation, according to the New Yorker, is good old Pasco County. ...more

February 11, 2009

The election is history. The oaths of office have been taken. From Pasco County all the way to Washington, D.C., we have new representatives to help lead us into the future. Our work as Americans is done until the next round of elections, right? ...more

February 4, 2009

Jeff Knott met with a representative from Florida-based, independent publisher DC Press in October 2007. ...more

December 24, 2008

Terrorist attacks have shattered the peace in more than half a dozen Indian cities over the past year. Yet none threatened India's secular and democratic polity as much as the carnage that jolted Mumbai last week. Mumbai is India's financial and commercial capital and arguably the country's most cosmopolitan metropolis. By targeting, among other establishments, two of the city's most opulent hotels - the Taj and the Oberoi Trident - where the rich, famous and influential congregate to advance their business and political agendas, the terrorists struck at the very symbol of a resurgent nation. ...more

November 30, 2008

A lonely Avon Park fan sat in the stands by himself at Ridge Stadium and just shook his head after another play resulted in a loss against Ridge Community on Friday night. ...more

September 7, 2008

The other night I tried to read part of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, $18) while I was very sleepy, which meant that the story, which is hard enough to follow when you're fully awake and completely engaged, took on a dreamy quality that I sort of enjoyed. After all, it sometimes reads as if Pynchon wrote the thing in a similar state. ...more

August 31, 2008