Well done, Learning Gate Community School. Adults acting like adults. At LGCS, cell phones have been banned on campus. Students must either leave them at home or at the front office. Appealing to reason or just rules – given the ubiquity of cell phones in the culture – hadn’t worked. Text-messaging and [...]
They’ve done this before. The vehicles vary, the subject doesn’t. Jack Ross and Ahmed Bedier — each speaking truth and reality as they know it. About Jews and Muslims. About Israelis and Palestinians. About blame. In the end, they don’t agree on enough, but they do personify hope. That’s because Ross, a member of [...]
Whether you voted for President Obama or not. Whether you like his stimulus and mortgage plans or not. Whether you think we are too politically correct or not. That cartoon in the New York Post was unconscionable. The one that obviously likened the African-American president — as the writer of the stimulus bill [...]
Wasn’t there a time when the nomination of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state was dominating editorial pages, talk radio and cable news as the most problematic of cabinet picks? Seems a long time ago.
A lot of folks probably missed the recent retirement of Joe Calzaghe. He’s the Welshmen who stepped down as the undefeated super middleweight champion with a 46-0 record. His last two wins were over prominent American light heavyweights Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones. Calzaghe, 36, was champion for more than a decade. The [...]
This week the International Olympic Committee will get an application from the International Amateur Boxing Association requesting the inclusion of women’s boxing in the Olympics – starting with the London Games in 2012. The chances look favorable. That is the same year, incidentally, that the Olympics will drop (women’s) softball. Boxing – and women’s wrestling [...]
You would have thought that George H.W. Bush’s infamous “No new taxes” pledge in 1988 would have been forewarning enough. It eventually did what such expedient political promises typically do: run smack into unforeseen reality down the road. Bush de-pledged. He had rolled the rhetorical dice and hoped ensuing events – fiscal and political [...]
Those looking to take shots at Gov. Charlie Crist are not lacking for ammo. But they need to prioritize their bullet points. Property taxes continue to not “drop like a rock.” The state is still one major hurricane away from insurance implosion. There is no gubernatorial leadership when it comes to the manifestly obvious [...]
It’s serious business when it comes to selling Tampa Bay Rays season tickets – especially in Hillsborough County. That’s where the most erosion has been. So last week’s Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce luncheon for the Rays – in effect, a Rays’ pep rally and business-community band wagon opportunity – was a critical [...]
Last week the Tampa Bay Rays’ road show pulled into Tampa’s downtown Hyatt Hotel for its annual Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce pep rally. Given that the Rays’ are still aglow in the aftermath of their “worst-to-first,” feel-good sports story of the year, the mood was refreshingly expectant – no longer generically hopeful. [...]
