TAMPA - The city council voted unanimously this morning to encourage the New York Yankees to rename Legends Field after Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. ...more

February 7, 2008

I write in support of the move by Commissioner Rose Ferlita and Councilman Charlie Miranda to rename Legends Field to honor George Steinbrenner. ...more

February 7, 2008

George Steinbrenner Stadium. A county commissioner and a city councilman think there's a nice ring to it and are pushing to rename Legends Field after "The Boss." ...more

February 2, 2008

Debra Harmon doesn't consider sheltering unwanted dogs a criminal act. ...more

February 1, 2008

Debra Harmon doesn't consider sheltering unwanted dogs a criminal act. ...more

February 1, 2008

Jeanne Rae Coulter of Port Richey, director of the Salvation Army City of Hope, says thanks for support during holiday season. ...more

January 30, 2008

Dear Abby: A friend was diagnosed with cancer. A single woman living alone, she rallied a group of co-workers, friends and neighbors to donate their time to help her with a variety of tasks. These included driving her back and forth to chemo and doctor appointments, fixing meals, cleaning her house (she has OCD and was superpicky about every detail, including cleaning the cat box), sleeping over to make sure she was OK (we had only a lumpy couch because she refused to set up a bed in one of her two vacant bedrooms!) and handling a variety of other tasks. ...more

January 27, 2008

Frank Urso grew up in Ybor City - the "barrio" as he affectionately calls it - where his family worked in the cigar factories. He enrolled at the University of Tampa in 1953, thinking a college degree would open opportunities he saw so rarely in his neighborhood. ...more

January 26, 2008

This week the TV news showed us images of George Bush, president of the United States and supposed leader of the free world, carrying a Saudi sword while dancing with a member of the Saudi royal family. For me, this ultimate indignity on the part of our president was reminiscent of a drunken Boris Yeltsin, leader of a failed Soviet Union playing "would you like to lead a band ?" Doubtless George, wearing his now famous smirk, saw no loss of dignity in playing the court jester for his Arab friends, perhaps to win them over to his pathetic plea for OPEC to sell more oil to assist the U.S. economy, one of their biggest customers as Bush reminded them. Their curt response was they will increase their sales when the market warrants it, thereby putting Bush in his place and inferentially reminding him that the OPEC cartel does not exist to do the U.S. favors. Its ability to squeeze the U.S. in a time of economic crisis, despite Bush's supposed generosity in approving a large sale of sophisticated arms to Saudi Arabia, is a blunt reminder of who is in the economically dominant position, in U.S.- Saudi relations. Way to go George! ...more

January 20, 2008

as a teacher, administrator and ultimately superintendent - I have come to recognize what it takes for children to succeed. ...more

January 15, 2008