Pasco County deputies and the Florida Highway Patrol are warning motorists about foggy conditions and poor visibility on Interstate 75 from the State Road 56 on ramp to the Hillsborough County line. ...more

February 3, 2008

We are faced with a dilemma. The president, whose term will end next January, plans to run for a new term and assures us that he can also be hired as property manager when he obtains his CAM license. He is holding up the investment until he is sure. ...more

February 2, 2008

TAMPA - Cameras at red lights, which police say save lives and drastically cut the number of light-jumpers, may be coming to Hillsborough County in the near future. Hillsborough County commissioners today gave the sheriff's office a green light to further investigate installing the cameras at 10 of the county's most dangerous intersections. The intersections were not identified. ...more

January 16, 2008

Having returned to the Tampa area after living in Seattle the past five years, I am shocked at a multitude of declining quality-of-life issues in the bay area. One strong and dangerous concern is the number of cars that speed through traffic lights as they turn from caution to red. ...more

January 7, 2008

The conservationists tend to get a little tense when they approach Egg 54, which sits alone on a metal tray inside an incubator, absorbing warm air like some sort of fragile, slow-baked potato. ...more

December 30, 2007

Motorola said Friday that Ed Zander will step down as chief executive on Jan. 1 after months under pressure for the sharp decline of the company's once-hot cell phone business. ...more

December 1, 2007

By now, you have either accepted your property tax bill or, if you are like me, have filed for a hearing with the Value Adjustment Board and will be awaiting their answer by March or April of 2008. ...more

November 27, 2007

Regarding "Scientists Re-Create Stem Cells" (front page, Nov. 21): The news of stem cells being created from adult skin cells is breathtaking. If this turns out to be the real deal, no news event in the past 2000 years (save one; I'm a Christian after all) can compare. I hope for the day when so many ailments can be effectively cured - not "treated" but truly cured. ...more

November 25, 2007

The head of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, is right to give no hint that interest rates will be cut again soon. ...more

November 14, 2007

A large new study found no sign that vitamin D lowers the overall risk of dying from cancer, injecting a note of caution to the latest vitamin craze. ...more

October 31, 2007