Interesting that opting out to move the public option through Congress is gaining momentum among some blue dog Democrats and those conservative Republicans whose constituencies lie mostly in the southern states, a few in the far west. ...more

October 29, 2009

Prepare to be awed by Odd Day. ...more

May 7, 2009

Commissioners Diane Rowden and Chris Kingsley gave their farewells at Wednesday's meeting, their last as board members. ...more

November 13, 2008

Nelson Mdlovu strides out of the small clinic with a spring in his step and a smile on his lips just minutes after being circumcised. ...more

November 3, 2008

Politics are a lot like sports, and there's not much difference between fans and political supporters. Sometimes in the zeal of supporting their team or candidate, they can be downright silly - and mean. That's going on at the national and local levels. ...more

October 12, 2008

At 12 years old, Zachary Sharples is a lifelong Tampa Bay Rays fan. "I've been a Rays fan since they started playing," he said. "I went to the second game in Rays' history with my mom. I was 2. My dad went to the first game." ...more

October 9, 2008

12-year-old Rays fan is suspended from Manatee County school because he came to school with a mohawk hairstyle inspired by his baseball heroes. ...more

October 8, 2008

Every single man knows: Walking a dog in the park is a sure babe magnet. Saudi Arabia's Islamic religious police, in their zeal to keep the sexes apart, want to make sure the technique doesn't catch on here. ...more

August 1, 2008

Fourteen months later, Michael Cox's indefatigable race for the county commission's District 4 seat remains the standard to which all insurgent campaigns hereabouts will be compared. Not in terms of strategy - Cox's shoe-leather campaign was older than democracy itself - but as measured by energy, zeal and singular purpose. ...more

January 13, 2008

On the whole, Americans want their politicians to hew to the political center and govern with a healthy dose of pragmatism. Yet we live in the most bitterly partisan era in memory, when the dominant voices in both parties are more ideological and less willing to compromise, and the politics they practice too often is a mean-spirited, take-no-prisoners enterprise. ...more

December 31, 2007