The advent of the Internet opened a gateway to limitless information. But it started with physical limitations. Namely, anyone accessing it was anchored to a home computer. ...more

March 15, 2009

Eugene Baus of Brooksville several weeks ago wrote to ask for a recipe for sauerkraut balls made at Stouffer's restaurant in Cleveland. His request elicited a raft of replies. ...more

March 15, 2009

Readers send in recipes for sauerkraut balls and ask for recipes for Golden Goody Bars, peanut-butter toast, oatmeal stuffing, shortbread cookies and Paprika Chicken. ...more

March 12, 2009

There's a lot you can buy with $1,025: a new wardrobe, a top-of-the-line entertainment system, even a month of eating out. ...more

March 12, 2009

Barbie, the iconic fashion doll with the top-heavy figure and high-heel arches, turns 50 today, with no need for Botox and no threat of hot flashes. ...more

March 9, 2009

I'm an eBayer. EBay, that's the Internet's garage sale. In fact it's the largest garage sale known to mankind, although the company is actually considered an auction house. ...more

February 28, 2009

Tampa City Councilwoman Mary Mulhern thinks what this town needs are community gardens. What with the tough economic times, she says what we should be doing is putting vegetable gardens where there are vacant lots. She's talking about putting them all across town, from Hyde Park to New Tampa. ...more

February 18, 2009

CLASS 3A-REGION 2 TEAM RESULTS 1. Osceola 204.5; 2. Palm Bay 131; 3. Palm Beach Gardens 92.5; 4. Bloomingdale 82; 5. Countryside 81.5; 6. Durant 73; 7. Jupiter 66; 8. Riverview 65; 9. Sarasota 61.5; 10. Pinellas Park 54.5; 11. Vero Beach 51.5; 12. Palm Harbor 51; 12. Alonso 51; 14. East Lake 49.5; 15. Lakeland 43; 16. St. Petersburg 37; 17. Wellington 36; 18. Seminole Ridge 29; 18. Melbourne 29; 20. Royal Palm Beach 27; 20. Eau Gallie 27; 22. Centennial 25; 23. Mitchell 24.5; 24. East Bay 22; 25. Largo High 17; 26. Sickles 16; 27. Plant City 13.5; 28. Gateway 9; 29. Palm Beach Lakes 5.5; 29. Gaither 5.5. ...more

February 15, 2009

Hundreds of people are lined up in Fort Myers today for tickets to a town hall meeting with President Barack Obama. ...more

February 9, 2009

On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE. ...more

February 5, 2009