While most of us try to be opened minded about youth fashion these days, some things just leave us old fogeys rubbing our heads trying to figure out some meaning to all this madness. The list of these things we can't understand is long, but nothing is more confusing than the desire to wear pants so big that they mysteriously stay up, but not before exposing inches of boxer shorts. Before we criticize, though, we must recall that our own parents weren't too big on rock and roll, long hair and just about anything else we wore or did. That's probably true of every generation since Adam and Eve looked at their offspring and asked, "Where in the world do you think you're going wearing that?" ...more

January 13, 2008

Thursday's long-anticipated report on Major League Baseball's "steroid era" was surprising only in the long list of players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and that all 30 teams had at least one abuser. ...more

December 14, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Two inmates at the Land O' Lakes jail were flown to St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa tonight after a fight involving several people. ...more

November 23, 2007

The Broward County Sheriff's Office said two suspects connected to the shooting of a Brinks armored car guard after an attempted robbery in Miami are in custody. Another person is still at large. ...more

November 13, 2007

TAMPA - An attorney for a University of South Florida student accused of illegally transporting explosives says in a court pleading that investigators don't have his permission to search his belongings. ...more

October 25, 2007

Regarding 'School Day Squeeze' (front page, Oct. 18): As an elementary school teacher, I find it somewhat comical to read about high school teachers' complaints concerning working a full day. I have dealt with 30-minute lunches and possibly one 30-minute 'break' period during the day since I began teaching. Kindergarten teachers are lucky to get a lunch period with the number of aides that have been taken away over the years. Elementary school teachers are lucky to make it to the bathroom a couple times a day. ...more

October 22, 2007

Fred Palensar of Holiday says Charley Reese was correcting in quoting David Rockefeller about the lack of leaders in American. Rockefeller and his family control the country, Palensar says. ...more

October 13, 2007

TAMPA – A half-dozen high school athletes are waiting to find out whether they'll be disciplined for a fight that broke out after a junior varsity football game between Alonso and Jefferson high schools Thursday night. ...more

October 5, 2007

The way things are going, the first votes in the 2008 Presidential election may yet be cast in 2007, more than 10 months before the national elections next November. This is not an improvement. ...more

September 5, 2007