Hillsborough County Animal Services is removing about 75 dogs along with cats and exotic birds from a property at 1306 Pelote Cemetery Road in Lithia. ...more

December 10, 2008

Maybe I should revise my estimate. Lately, many people have asked me about the fate of the American newspaper in an era when circulation, advertising and staff size are all sharply down. I've told them what editors have told me: The next 18 to 24 months may well see the first major U.S. city without a daily paper. ...more

November 8, 2008

An Oct. 26 letter to the editor by Jim Mastro omits one very important factor; his dissertation is theoretical and has no substance in our realistic society with the greed mentality recently displayed over the last eight years. ...more

November 4, 2008

It is truly disgusting how the political campaigns for the one of the most prestigious offices on this planet have digressed into outrageous smear campaigns. Those of us who were formally trained in professional sales were always taught to sell the features and benefits of our own products without ever mentioning the competition. Do theses candidates have so little to propose that their best election pitch is make us believe they are the lesser of two evils, or do these people have so little faith in the intelligence of the average American that they feel this is the only way to communicate? ...more

September 24, 2008