Selfish people I've appreciated The Tampa Tribune for years. I used to wake up every morning eager to run down my driveway and grab the dew-covered, plastic-wrapped gift that your dependable carrier left for me. But now, I don't. ...more

December 22, 2009

Tebow's successes Some folks in Florida want to blame Tim Tebow for our loss to Alabama on Saturday, but that game was lost in the first five minutes of play. ...more

December 8, 2009

American Express Co. is buying St. Petersburg-based Revolution Money, an online payment company, for about $300 million. ...more

November 27, 2009

American Express Co. announced on Wednesday that it plans to buy St. Petersburg-based Revolution Money, an online payment company, for about $300 million. ...more

November 19, 2009

As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in health bills. Those in their 50s cost at least 10 times more. The effect of proposed health care reform - which limits the ability of insurers to charge higher premiums for older adults - would be, he said, a large shift of America's health care burden to the younger generation. ...more

November 4, 2009

A restoration effort by the Garden Club of Tarpon Springs to provide a major facelift to Mother Meres Park will be completed earlier than scheduled. ...more

October 31, 2009

I think the so-called generation gap is widening. Blame it as much on a younger generation that feels that oldsters think the same as they do while coping with a communication technology that is expanding exponentially. ...more

October 31, 2009

The Rev. Jamie Westlake was assigned to Brandon's First United Methodist Church in 2007. Things had been humming along quite nicely at his Fort Myers assignment, but Westlake answered the call to Brandon without hesitation. ...more

October 21, 2009

Limbaugh's Daily Droppings Having grown up on a Nebraska farm in the 1940s and '50s, I experienced first-hand the good, the bad and the ugly of Midwestern farm life. My father, among other lessons, taught me something about finances. ...more

March 26, 2009

The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry. ...more

March 20, 2009