Your letters were all over the board this week, from Tampa's streets to Berlin to health care. ...more

November 16, 2009

We were lost, which you might not think is easy when you are downtown in a city with more than a million people. ...more

November 11, 2009

Germany celebrated the anniversary of its reunification Saturday with a performance featuring a pair of giant marionettes suspended by cranes marching through downtown. The spectacle, performed by France's Royale de Luxe theater company, culminated with the two embracing at the Brandenburg Gate - reuniting on the former dividing line between East and West Berlin. ...more

October 4, 2009

The last time I had seen Checkpoint Charlie, the best known border crossing between what was then East and West Berlin, was in 1972. ...more

October 22, 2008

Sixty years ago this month, the top story in campaign year 1948 was not the big poll lead of Republican nominee Thomas Dewey or the plight of President Harry Truman. It was the Berlin Airlift. ...more

July 23, 2008

Few of the thousands of visitors to this year's AirFest at MacDill Air Force Base probably knew the history behind the C-54 transport plane flown in for the occasion. Along with the C-47s, it played an important role in the largest humanitarian campaign the world had ever seen: The Berlin Airlift. ...more

June 26, 2008

While making a cup of coffee, Frank Pringle stumbled onto something. Now, after years of experimentation, he fervently believes he is taking important first steps that could play a role in meeting acute energy demands. ...more

December 23, 2007