Around this office – granted, it’s a home office – we have what we call “Epitaph Days.” Perhaps you know the feeling. These are days when something in the news or just stubbornly embedded in the society gets you scratching your head or clenching your fist. Sometimes it’s because you’ve been made to feel like [...]
In his youth, Havana native Antonio Zamora put it all on the line to take out the Fidel Castro regime and rid the hemisphere of a menacing Soviet satellite. He survived the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion – and subsequent imprisonment in a Cuban jail. He could be the avatar of anti-Castro, pro-embargo Cuban gravitas. [...]
Most little boys, arguably, don’t want to be poets when they grow up. James E. Tokley, however, comes pretty close. At age three, he fell in love with the sound of words. He remembers the early epiphany at his grandmother’s side while she read to him in their rural Seaford, Del., home. He was captivated, [...]
Around this office – granted, it’s a home office – we have what we call “Epitaph Days.” Perhaps you know the feeling. These are days when something in the news or just embedded in the society gets you scratching your head. Sometimes it’s because you’ve been made to feel like an alien in your own [...]
For the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, that elusive road to success undoubtedly includes Interstate 4. And while the Rays’ three-game series last week with Texas at Disney’s Wide World of Sports was less than a flat-out, gangbusters’ success, it was hardly unsuccessful. The games drew (9,000 average) about as much as they would have at [...]
Perhaps the best case for presidential primaries is what they are not: vehicles that select nominees in smoke-filled rooms or via convention-floor arm-twisting. But you can also make a pretty good argument that any time the voices of the voters carry the day, democracy wins. But over time we began to notice that those anomalous [...]
Historical author Michael Barone has been charting a significant shift in this country’s census patterns. From 2000-06, the U.S. population grew by approximately 6 percent. However, the rate of growth in America’s “Coastal Megalopolises” (such as Boston, New York, Miami, Los Angeles and San Diego) was only 4 percent, points out Barone in a recent [...]
Speculation over his future continues to stalk University of Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan. It comes with the territory when you’re the hottest collegiate-coach property in the country – as evidenced by the Gators’ consecutive national championships. But ever since he nixed any interest in the Kentucky job, it’s been assumed that any future overtures [...]
Permit me to share something. It’s personal, yet universal. I hope it helps somebody. This column was on hiatus last week. My mother was grievously ill; there were ventilator scenarios; she finally passed away. Some of you have been there. For others, the biological inevitability of a loved one in a clinical, life-tethering setting awaits. [...]
