The Yiddish expression that declares "for goodness you'll get stoned" - with rocks, for our younger readers - has never been truer than it is today. During the last decade it became evident that Billy Joel was right: the good do die young. Those nasty, vicious, self-serving and evil people around us seem to live forever. They appear to thrive on the venom they exude. ...more

December 26, 2009

I am surprised you printed Keith O'Dell's diatribe against John Nash. Even with your follow-up correcting Mr. O'Dell's assertion that Mr. Nash's column violated "journalism," something he certainly should have known, you simply provided a forum for Mr. O'Dell to spew venom at Mr. Nash, with virtually nothing to justify it. ...more

November 4, 2009

Two Pasco County residents were recovering at a Tampa hospital Monday after being bitten by rattlesnakes during the weekend. ...more

November 3, 2009

Esther Orreno, 87, said she wasn't scared when she fought a pygmy rattlesnake with her cane earlier this week and squeezed it to death with her right hand. ...more

August 14, 2009

One fatality was reported Monday when a pygmy rattlesnake bit an 87-year-old woman on the hand. The final score: Cane-wielding octogenarian, 1: venomous snake, 0. ...more

August 10, 2009

Alice Coolbaugh of Port Richey says Republicans ar spewing "hateful and erroneous" venom about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. ...more

June 3, 2009

My most memorable moment from Sen. Barack Obama's campaign occurred as we were on the way to a high-dollar fundraising event. ...more

November 8, 2008

Mendenhall is go-to guy for first responders. ...more

October 21, 2008

Florida's critters are harder to come by as urban sprawl sterilizes the landscape. ...more

October 21, 2008

The sound of a snake's rattle usually disperses a crowd. On Saturday at Chinsegut Nature Center, the opposite happened. ...more

October 12, 2008