Perhaps someone should start taking out ads and distributing leaflets warning visitors to this state that they run the risk of meeting a dangerously impaired Floridian on the road. Armed, as it were, with poor motor skills and/or dementia. Maybe that will prompt the state to get serious about culling the ranks of its unsafe [...]
You can, apparently, go home again. Less than five years ago and approaching his 40th birthday, Frank Sanchez returned to his hometown of Tampa. He was a Harvard grad who had been assistant secretary for aviation and international affairs in the Clinton Administration. He came home to be with his aging parents and to run [...]
In a decision that couldn’t possibly please everyone, the Hillsborough School Board recently voted to end vacation days for all religious holidays. However it came about, it was the right call. For the record, it came about because a group of Muslims had asked for a religious holiday not unlike those accorded Christians and Jews. [...]
The Florida Department of Education recently announced that it’s releasing reading and math questions on fourth- and eighth-grade Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests. A month ago, the DOE released questions from the 10th grade FCAT. Notably not released was a reasonable, compassionate, common sense answer to this question: Why are you forcing high school seniors who [...]
Among all the possible scenarios to be played out in the Valerie Plame CIA-leak investigation, the one that always seemed most likely has come to pass. Reporter Judith Miller will write a book. Karl Rove might skate and Lewis Libby may scoot — and Dick Cheney likely can pull a plausible-deniability card from his sleeve. [...]
Among all the possible scenarios to be played out in the Valerie Plame CIA-leak investigation, the one that always seemed most likely has come to pass. Reporter Judith Miller will write a book. Karl Rove might skate and Lewis Libby may scoot — and Dick Cheney likely can pull a plausible-deniability card from his sleeve. [...]
Antonio Tarver, the likable and loquacious light heavyweight champion from Tampa, has announced his next two fights: Sylvester Stallone and Mike Tyson. In December he starts filming the sixth Rocky movie, “Rocky Balboa.” He’ll play “Mason Dixon,” a boxer – not a disc jockey. In February or March Tarver will play himself against Tyson, the [...]
Antonio Tarver, the likable and loquacious light heavyweight champion from Tampa, has announced his next two fights: Sylvester Stallone and Mike Tyson. In December he starts filming the sixth Rocky movie, “Rocky Balboa.” He’ll play “Mason Dixon,” a boxer – not a disc jockey. In February or March Tarver will play himself against Tyson, the [...]
A limousine load of “attaboys” for that Uniondale, N.Y., principal who canceled Kellenberg Memorial High School’s prom. Not unexpectedly, a lot of students and parents disagreed. Very vocally. Too bad. Brother Kenneth M. Hoagland, the principal of the Catholic high school in upscale Long Island, said he was fed up with the “flaunting of affluence” [...]
What to make of the National Basketball Association’s new player dress code? For openers, it’s an employer-employee issue, with ample precedent in the marketplace. In the NBA’s case, the league is requiring its player-employees to wear “business casual” attire when involved in team or league business. It’s called image. Disney has one; so does IBM. [...]
