Middle-aged men live their teenage garage-band dreams by forming bands, playing gigs — and getting applause. ...more

October 16, 2007

all 77 million of them - will come into their retirement years. In doing so, they will transform every aspect of American society. ...more

October 15, 2007

In the chaotic hours before Hurricane Charley plowed over Florida three years ago, shelters opened their doors to an influx of frail seniors who had nowhere else to go. Some were so fragile, with so many health problems, that reporters began making inquiries. ...more

October 9, 2007

In the chaotic hours before Hurricane Charley plowed over Florida three years ago, shelters opened their doors to an influx of frail seniors who had nowhere else to go. Some were so fragile, with so many health problems, that reporters began making inquiries. What nursing homes, they demanded to know, were dumping all of these vulnerable, elderly people into public shelters? ...more

October 8, 2007

Planners worried about future traffic congestion in fast-growing south Hillsborough County have suggested building two bridges across the Alafia River. ...more

October 8, 2007

Older people are sticky. That is the latest view from Silicon Valley. Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and twentysomethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites aimed at baby boomers and older people. ...more

October 5, 2007

CLEARWATER - Sales are still declining but inventory has stabilized, and the slumping Tampa Bay area housing market should turn around by the end of spring, the National Association of Realtors' top economist said Thursday. ...more

October 4, 2007

Four musicians with backgrounds of playing in area bands have recently formed Shotgun, a band dedicated to the sounds they love. Shotgun's motto is "A Blast from the Past." ...more

October 3, 2007

Would you like your Civil War history seasoned with baseball trivia? Spritzed up with a winery tour? Do you long to dissect the Battle of Antietam with a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian? ...more

September 30, 2007

Eight years ago, not long after 72-year-old Anne Beale Golsan had retired on disability from her job as a librarian, she put a stack of paid bills out for the mail, hung up a freshly pressed outfit and taped a note to the front of the house. ...more

September 21, 2007