A woman was injured today when she was struck by a section of stucco torn by wind gusts off a building near Five Points Park in downtown Sarasota. ...more

March 28, 2009

The city's Redevelopment Advisory Committee still isn't sold on City Manager Billy Poe's plans for renovating City Hall. ...more

February 19, 2009

When Betmar Acres resident Cheryl Okke replaced her 1971 trailer with a new mobile home, she thought her homeowners association would be elated. ...more

December 21, 2008

The last year has been a virtual game of musical chairs for many Dade City merchants. So many have moved or closed, the local Main Street organization is redesigning its brochures. ...more

October 25, 2008

I got an e-mail announcing the reissue of two albums by Volcano Suns, the band formed by Peter Prescott following the breakup of Mission of Burma. ...more

October 10, 2008

An experimental aircraft crashed into a house and exploded shortly after takeoff Friday, killing the pilot and two people inside the home, authorities said. ...more

August 23, 2008

There is another hotel choice for motorists driving through Hernando County. ...more

August 8, 2008

There is another hotel choice for motorists driving through Hernando County. ...more

August 8, 2008

A crash that dumped bags of stucco from a truck on Interstate 75 near Ellenton closed two northbound lanes, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, and the outside lane was still closed at 7 a.m. ...more

July 8, 2008

Likely time channel thinking is more pervasive and indelible than any other category of channel thinking. How long would it take to build a three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two-car garage, cement block stucco house, move-in ready? Once each year contractors in Broward County would build such a house in one day. The house was then sold with the proceeds going to charity. After World War I, the war to end all wars, the United States military was essentially dissolved. When World War II demanded that we re-arm promptly, a decade of re-arming was done within a year. ...more

July 3, 2008