Here’s the part I don’t get about that vote. You know the one. It wasn’t just Ronda Storms. Media-seducing, yahoo-pandering, red-meat rhetoric still only gets you one vote. Hers was one of five Hillsborough County Commission votes in favor of adopting a policy that prohibits the county from “acknowledging, promoting or participating in gay pride [...]
Last week was another slap in the face for all those still frustrated by this country’s failed, counter-productive and cruel economic embargo against Cuba. For all those who remain appalled that hard-line exile elements in South Florida still hold foreign-policy veto chips. The recent affront was occasioned by the White House welcome accorded Phan Van [...]
Esteban Yan, call home. It’s that bad for the bedeviled Rays. Lou Piniella won’t quit; he leaves too much money on the table. The Rays won’t fire him; they’d have to ante up. Barring a buy-out and a deal with another team, Lou, Stu Sternberg and Vince Naimoli are stuck with each other through next [...]
Some Floridians were willing to cut Jeb Bush some slack when he interfered in the Terri Schiavo case. They accorded him the benefit of his own religious doubts. He has certainly ceded that moral high ground, however, in the aftermath of that autopsy report that exonerated Michael Schiavo from any mistreatment charges. With his cynical [...]
Now comes another study, this one from Harvard University, to remind us that the racial gap in graduation rates remains stubbornly, unacceptably large. “Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in the South” reports that in Florida 45 percent of black students graduated in four years; 52 percent of Latinos; 54 percent of Native Americans; 63 percent [...]
For many Floridians, having a refreshing, man-made body of water in their backyard is no mere amenity. It’s a Florida lifestyle necessity. Over the years, the needs would include more elaborate pools with more sophisticated bells and whistles and increasingly lush landscaping. But the fastest growing segment of the backyard waterscape business is spas, according [...]
That recent, headline-grabbing shooting in Ybor City – in the parking lot beside La Tropicana Café – was unfortunate and troubling on a couple of levels. Two Haines City visitors were pistol whipped by (five) armed predator-cowards, but were not seriously injured. Traumatized to be sure, but not hurt badly. They won’t soon forget the [...]
Penn State, which opens its 2005 football season against USF, has had one winning season in the last five. For many observers, that’s reason sufficient to conclude that the game has passed by its legendary coach, 78-year-old Joe Paterno. It’s all about recruiting, any knowledgeable fan can tell you. The bluest blue chippers don’t see [...]
Penn State, which opens its 2005 football season against USF, has had one winning season in the last five. For many observers, that’s reason sufficient to conclude that the game has passed by its legendary coach, 78-year-old Joe Paterno. It’s all about recruiting, any knowledgeable fan can tell you. The bluest blue chippers don’t see [...]
Amid the usual maelstrom of political activity that is the culmination of any legislative session, lots of stuff gets signed into law that stays under the radar for a good while. Well, here’s one you should be hearing about shortly — and coming to a traffic stop near you. Thanks to a provision in a [...]
