The timing seems so distant. But we still have not reached the six-month anniversary of one of the deadliest workplace shootings in U.S. history.
Visit Florida has had rough go of it the last few years.
We’re becoming a country more to the liking of fictional Judge Elihu Smails.
Over the past few weeks, we have seen a number of news stories reporting the increase in people who are showing up at driver’s license bureaus looking to get a Real ID.
As we gather around the table with our families this Thanksgiving day . . .
Cemeteries are vital histories, snapshots of time and place that pass a community’s story on to later generations. That’s why discovering a lost cemetery carries an obligation for any community. As Tampa Bay works to recover more of its lost souls, residents should honor these lives and our …
Barry Krischer, the former longtime Palm Beach County state attorney, didn’t like it in July when Alex Acosta — under fire for the decade-old agreement that gave notorious serial offender Jeffrey Epstein the lightest of sentences — pointed the finger back to Krischer, whose office handled th…
With the calendar soon turning over to a “0” year, it’s time once again for the important business of conducting a nationwide census, an activity mandated to take place every 10 years in an effort to get a complete count of the country’s population.
July 6, 2002, a heavy rain flooded a 15,700-acre phosphate mining area in Hardee County, washing out an old dike that had impounded the stormwater. More than 500 gallons of mud-and-clay-saturated water rushed into the wetlands and eventually into the Peace River.
How did America get here? This fractured place where facts matter less and less, and neighbors can’t even share how they really feel.
Members of a subcommittee in the Florida House believe it’s time to do away with the Constitutional Revision Committee — a group that meets once every 20 years to recommend amendments to the state constitution.
March 31 of this year, the Englewood Community Coalition recruited about five dozen volunteers to help clean up the beach on Manasota Key.
If money talks, some have said, in politics it shouts.
The Florida Association of Counties has a long laundry list of topics and bills it will lobby for or against when legislators return to Tallahassee in 2020. Few, if any, are more of a priority than the funding of the Sadowski Affordable Housing Act.
The nation is facing two distinct vaping-related health crises: surging e-cigarette use among teenagers and a lung-injury outbreak that has sickened more than 2,000 people and killed at least 40. Both have exposed yawning gaps in the nation’s public health apparatus. But instead of closing t…
Public opinion on marijuana use is shifting dramatically. Just 10 years ago, polls showed that right around half of Americans supported wholesale legalization, including recreational use. In recent polls, however, national support has grown into a solid majority, ranging around 65%. Last wee…
News of bitterly cold weather across part of the nation is more a preview of coming attractions than the arrival of winter, which doesn’t officially begin until Dec. 21.
Rarely does a day go by that we in the newsroom aren’t discussing scams.
The Democratic candidates for President are promising a smorgasbord of new taxes, but why wait until 2021? Last week Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen and Virginia Congressman Don Beyer unveiled the Millionaires Surtax Act, a plan to soak the top 0.2%.
In Hollywood parlance this might be called a spoiler.