Paving Paradise For Parking Lots Re: Your story from last week on the new 3,700 home development off U.S. 19 from Hexam Road south to Star Road. ...more

February 22, 2008

Just as interesting as new technology are the years following its introduction and finally seeing how we use it. Sometimes it's exciting, and sometimes it's little depressing. The Internet is both. Never in the history of humankind have people had the ability to communicate so quickly and access more information. It's nearly impossible to find bad in that – except we have. It's true that information is only a mouse click away, but the quality of information is the real question. Too many people gravitate to places on the Internet telling them what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. So that makes a lot of us believe we're intelligent on issues when, in fact, we've just bought into someone else's point of view and call it fact. Political websites are the worst. Someone with a flair for writing can spew garbage about any candidate and get a lot of people believing it. Our country is all about free speech, and there's nothing wrong with stating opinions. In fact, it's healthy. The problem occurs when people are mentally lazy and don't check out the facts. ...more

February 19, 2008

Cliff Floyd, elder statesman of the Rays' position players, showed up for his first day of camp Saturday carrying his gear in a black garbage bag. ...more

February 17, 2008

The County Commission received a lot of calls last week from people expressing opposition to expanding the Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility. What spurred the calls – a flyer that appeared in many Pasco mailboxes last week. The mass mailing warned of possible pollution from an expanded resource recovery facility, which burns garbage to produce electricity. The flyer conveniently listed the number of the County Commission office. ...more

February 12, 2008

TAMPA - A 20-year-old Tampa woman was arrested early today and charged with child neglect after police say she left young children alone in her home with the front door wide open. Patricia Nicole Adams, of 8308 North Alaska St., was being held at Orient Road Jail on an $8,000 bond, jail records show. ...more

February 9, 2008

Call me crazy, but I don't like throwing food away, especially bread. Like the Italians and French, we Germans worship a good loaf of bread. But I'm also a self-respecting child of Depression-era parents who raised me with a hefty nurturing of frugality. ...more

January 14, 2008

Hillary is still alive politically. New Hampshire's outcome puts fresh focus on the upcoming Florida primary. ...more

January 11, 2008

A minor CSX freight train accident in Lakeland blocked two crossings for several hours Friday night, the Florida Highway Patrol reported. ...more

December 29, 2007

TAMPA - A Brandon woman set a chair and a box of garbage on fire inside a Valrico home she knew was occupied, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

December 18, 2007

This country's new president reacted furiously Thursday to accusations by U.S. prosecutors that an intercepted suitcase full of cash from Venezuela was meant to finance her election campaign, calling the charge "garbage in international politics." ...more

December 14, 2007