It reads like something written yesterday. "Development or progress, so called, is destroying much of the habitat of all our wildlife at an alarming rate," reads the column that appeared in a local newspaper. "(T)he decrease in numbers of many of our most interesting members of the bird world is a sad thing to contemplate." ...more

February 27, 2009

Last weekend I spent several hours at the Westfield Brandon mall, one of the area's largest. ...more

December 17, 2008

Last weekend I spent several hours at the Westfield Brandon mall, one of the area's largest. ...more

December 17, 2008

With a slumping economy, even members of the Central Pasco Optimist Club are finding it hard to be optimistic. ...more

December 3, 2008

On Aug. 28, I sat and listened to Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. ...more

September 25, 2008

A former driver for Osama bin Laden was sentenced Thursday to 51/2 years in prison for his material support for terrorism, a relatively light sentence that means the first detainee at Guantanamo Bay to face a full military commission trial could be released from custody in just five months. ...more

August 8, 2008

Dear President Bush, They say you can't always believe what you read in the papers. So, when I read that Marion Jones has applied to you for a pardon or commutation of her federal conviction for making false statements to investigators, I couldn't believe it. She lied to federal agents. She took steroids. She made false statements in a bank fraud investigation - not necessarily in that order. She admitted it. And now she apparently wants to be let off. ...more

July 24, 2008

The June 16 ceremony wasn't intended to be celebratory. Instead, it was a time for two families united by tragedy and loss to come together and reflect as the Brandon High School Alumni Association dedicated two memorial bricks along a memory walk in the courtyard in front of the high school on Victoria Street. ...more

June 21, 2008

Borat is dead. Sacha Baron Cohen tells The Daily Telegraph that he is retiring the clueless Kazakh journalist, as well as his other alter ego, aspiring rapper Ali G. ...more

December 22, 2007

As Britney Spears was shaving her head, popping in and out of drug rehab, flashing her nether regions and otherwise shocking us over the past year, fresh-faced tween star Jamie Lynn was the scandal-free Spears sister. ...more

December 20, 2007