During discussions with people here in my community, when you ask them who has control over taxing, spending and oversight during the last eight years they will tell you "Bush and the Republicans." ...more

March 26, 2009

It was January 22, 1997, two days before the Super Bowl XVI in the Detroit Dome, San Francisco was going to beat Cincinnati. Even inside it was chilly. ...more

January 29, 2009

Vanessa Bailey knew the answers she'd get even before she put the questions to the group of eighth-graders from West Hernando Middle School. ...more

January 28, 2009

Students get a look at the network's studio on wheels. ...more

January 27, 2009

The high school civics teacher who wanted to stop the controversial pat-downs of fans at Raymond James Stadium has reached the end of his legal road. ...more

January 22, 2009

The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan who challenged the team's pat-down searches. ...more

January 21, 2009

This is in reference to Dick Ford's Jan. 13 letter "Democratic Recession." Like most Republicans he feels Democrats are always to blame for all of the ills of our country. Republicans insist the 2001 economic down turn was in progress and inherited by Bush from the Clinton administration. Even though Obama will inherit the current recession (maybe depression) from Bush, I'm sure you Republicans will find a way to blame it on the Democrats. ...more

January 18, 2009

He'll lower gas prices, bring a favorite cousin home from Iraq, make racism go away and unite the whole world. ...more

November 9, 2008

"Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln," by John Stauffer (Twelve, $30) ...more

November 2, 2008

If there was anything certain about the federal bailout of the banking sector, it's that the venture would not stop at the banking sector. Giving out hundreds of billions of dollars in government assistance to one industry is like giving out free beer to the students in one corner of a college campus - it has a way of attracting a crowd. ...more

November 1, 2008