Some neighborhoods this holiday season look brighter than ever - pockets of cheery lights that come as a surprise given the general economic gloom and the numbers of people tightening up on spending. ...more

December 24, 2008

Some neighborhoods this holiday season look brighter than ever — pockets of cheery lights that come as a surprise given the general economic gloom and the numbers of people tightening up on discretionary spending. Other neighborhoods are, as may be expected, darker. ...more

December 23, 2008

Think for a minute about the challenges facing Hillsborough public schools: nearly a dozen high schools labeled as "dropout factories" because as many as 40 percent of students are left behind, a transportation quagmire that's hurt children and families, and spending practices that leave taxpayers wondering where the money goes. ...more

October 14, 2008

Now that folksy is in, I don't mind admitting that the first line of Joe Biden's latest e-mail reminded me of my grandmother. ...more

October 12, 2008

Now that folksy is in, I don't mind admitting that the first line of Joe Biden's latest e-mail reminded me of my grandmother. ...more

October 12, 2008

You can try to think about the bad times but it all just seems funny now. The years and years of losing simply set the stage for a story that has been tremendous and isn't finished yet. ...more

September 21, 2008

A majority of people – 57 percent – think Gov. Charlie Crist is doing a good job, but that's down from 61 percent who thought the same thing less than a year ago. ...more

August 28, 2008

Russia's military offensive into Georgia has jolted the Bush administration's relationship with Moscow, senior officials said on Thursday, forcing a wholesale reassessment of American dealings with Russia and jeopardizing talks on everything from halting Iran's nuclear ambitions to reducing strategic arsenals to cooperation on missile defenses. ...more

August 15, 2008

The children's faces stare in somber black-and-white photos from newspapers and scribbled posters at relief camps, seeking their parents. Many will never find them. ...more

May 23, 2008

A $1.2 billion plan by the Department of Homeland Security to buy a new kind of radiation-detection machine for the nation's borders has been put on hold again, a blow to one of the Bush administration's top security goals. ...more

November 20, 2007