Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of last week's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. ...more

November 8, 2009

Members of the Elegant Gardeners Club of Sun City Center host flower show. ...more

March 31, 2009

Four college students walk into a smoky restaurant, sit at a table under a blaring TV and order their class work for the day - two slabs of dripping spare ribs. ...more

February 14, 2009

One hesitates to praise the work of any governmental body, at the risk of sounding encouraging. Nonetheless, in the case of the New Port Richey City Council and its recent decision regarding event-related alcohol sales in Sims Park, This Space is willing to expend the risk. ...more

November 28, 2008

For nearly 30 years, they've entertained audiences from Sun City Center and around the Tampa Bay area. ...more

November 12, 2008

By midnight Tuesday, millions of conservatives probably will believe that the nation, foundering on the reefs of sin, is ruined. And millions of "progressives," emboldened to embrace truth in labeling by again calling themselves liberals, probably will have decided that Heaven is at hand, the nation revived like a flower in an April shower. ...more

November 2, 2008

"Slam Dunked," by Ron Gomez with Beryl Shipley (Wordclay, $19.95) ...more

November 2, 2008

Give The Country Credit Regarding "Obama's Race May Be Decider" (Other Views, Sept. 10): ...more

September 17, 2008

Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat. ...more

August 23, 2008

He was NASCAR's "party crasher," an "unwelcome surprise." He raced cars and was his own mechanic. In his youth, he ran moonshine - and outran the authorities - in his native Virginia to finance his expenses. ...more

August 20, 2008