America must recognize the fact that Mexico is in collapse. It is controlled by war lords just as China was in the early 1900s. The last 60 years have been very trying and costly for the United States. It has been a highway for illegal drugs and illegal movement of people into the United States, from all over the world. We have troops on the ground all around the world to help those nations from killing each other, yet we are ignoring our neighbor to the south whose death rate is not acceptable; in fact, it is reaching into the United States. ...more

February 14, 2009

A Florida Congresswoman is calling out Forbes magazine for including Miami in its list of Top 10 Most Miserable Cities in the country. ...more

February 13, 2009

The Clearwater company that designed and built a concrete and steel ceiling that collapsed inside a Tampa International Airport parking garage has agreed to pay for restoring the canopy, officials said Thursday. ...more

February 13, 2009

The Clearwater firm that designed and built a concrete-and-steel ceiling that collapsed inside a Tampa International Airport garage has agreed to pay for restoring the canopy, officials said this morning. ...more

February 12, 2009

Brett Favre swears this is the real deal - no more last-minute comebacks. ...more

February 12, 2009

Heavy groundwater pumping to irrigate crops during recent cold snaps might be to blame for a half-dozen recent sinkholes that have closed roads in the Plant City area, Hillsborough County officials say. ...more

February 11, 2009

In its recent anniversary issue, the New Yorker magazine took a look at the state of affairs here in Florida. Apparently there is nothing amiss in the Empire State worthy of note. So it declares things here a real mess, thanks to the collapse of the real estate market. While it told of some foreclosure hardship tales from southwestern Florida, the ground zero of the devastation, according to the New Yorker, is good old Pasco County. ...more

February 11, 2009

Joel Toro of Tampa thought he was set for life. Then the phone rang last month. ...more

February 6, 2009

An album of songs about a tawdry night out doesn't suggest grand ambitions on Franz Ferdinand's part - what else have they ever written about, really? - but at least it's something they probably know well. ...more

February 6, 2009

On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left. ...more

February 4, 2009