Five small businesses were honored in a big way Thursday by the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce. ...more

October 28, 2009

Sometimes you just have to move on, even if it's painful. That's what the folks behind what used to be called the Eagle National Security Training Center should understand. It's looks as if they are doing just that. ...more

October 22, 2009

Tampa Downtown Rotary Club awarded the Rotary Service Above Self award to John H. Sykes, founder and chairman emeritus of Sykes Enterprises, at its May 19 meeting. ...more

May 27, 2009

and, as events bespoke, not only me - when the original site for the sixth more-or-less annual "Lingerie Bowl" succumbed to West Tampa neighborhood standards that the readymade venue for such an epic sporting event was just up the road in the thumping heart of Pasco County. ...more

January 28, 2009

Judging from the debates leading up to the presidential election, America is a country made up of men who are beer-drinking plumbers and women who spend their days driving people to and from sporting events. But we are far more than Joe the Plumber, Joe Six-pack, Soccer Mom and Hockey Mom - with or without the lipstick. ...more

October 25, 2008

Reading what's on everyone's mind in various media takes me back to my childhood, where I enjoyed some wonderful experiences with my grandfather. He was an astute businessman and was affectionately known to his nine children as "the boss." He arrived in the Midwest from Ellis Island in the late 1800s and began to build his family's future, homesteading on a 160-acre Nebraska farm. His hard work, entrepreneurial spirit, shrewd business practices and persistence resulted in ownership of several farms and numerous bank accounts. ...more

September 9, 2008

The city's newest hotel now has a general manager. The Shaner Hotel Group announced last week that Cindy Robinson has been selected for the post at its Marriott Fairfield Inn & Suites at County Line Road and Interstate 4. The hotel is scheduled to open in January. ...more

August 29, 2008

Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury has helped transform what 20 years ago was the country's worst zoo into what Child Magazine rates as the nation's best for its size. ...more

August 28, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday evoked President Kennedy's challenge to land on the moon and called for the same dedication and innovation to finding ways to save the Earth in an address that kicked off his second annual summit on climate change. ...more

June 26, 2008

Listening to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton repeat stories they claim to have been told by the poor and the unemployed, who are unable to pay for food and medicine and feel miserable about it, is enough to make one think we are living in a Third World dictatorship and not the United States of America. But victimhood and a "can't do" spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression. ...more

June 12, 2008