Let's be honest. Most of us won't have the opportunity, much less the money, to attend this evening's Super Bowl. And we weren't invited to the A-list parties and didn't encounter Bruce Springsteen or even Paris Hilton on the sidewalk. ...more

February 1, 2009

Super Bowl fever is swallowing Tampa, it seems, to the point you can't enter a grocery store without being confronted by a football stadium made with canned chili. ...more

January 30, 2009

Super Bowl fever is swallowing Tampa, it seems, to the point you can't enter a grocery store without being confronted by a football stadium made with canned chili. ...more

January 29, 2009

A family member's medical emergency forced Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite to leave Washington Monday as the House prepared to debate and vote on President Obama's $825 billion economic stimulus package. ...more

January 28, 2009

Highlands County commissioners are deciding whether the county should lift its ban on private landfills. It's, no doubt, a difficult decision, but there are big potential problems if they allow private dumping, and we hope that if they do allow it, there are strong stipulations. ...more

January 23, 2009

When he sat down with a pen and paper and tried to reflect on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with an eye to the future presidency of Barack Obama, Tampa Poet Laureate James Tokley didn't know what he would say. ...more

January 21, 2009

Along the National Mall in Washington, off Independence Avenue near Seventh Street, there once stood a building known as the Yellow House. According to Jesse Holland's "Black Men Built the Capitol," it appeared from the outside like other dwellings. In the basement, with iron bars on the windows and rings in the floor for chains, and in a yard enclosed by a 12-foot wall, enslaved humans were kept and sold. ...more

January 18, 2009

The rumor that Lecavalier could be dealt to the Montreal Canadiens is a runaway train, writes Joe Henderson. ...more

January 13, 2009

While we congratulate the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) for taking what appears to be a positive step forward by establishing two standing committees to be headed by Commissioner Rocco (Budget) and Commissioner Druzbick (Economic Development), we hope these efforts produce better decisions. ...more

January 11, 2009

Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Bruce Allen spoke with the media on Friday for 46 minutes about his team's disappointing finish in 2008. ...more

January 9, 2009