A question concerning the county's efforts at recycling: Has Hillsborough County stopped doing it? ...more

November 20, 2007

The way the players tell it, they don't seek the information out; it comes to them. ...more

November 10, 2007

SEBRING –– Highlands County went "green" when it launched a recycling program back in 1990. In about a month, the county will be greener, as it begins accepting office paper for recycling. Residents and businesses have frequently been asking Highlands County Recycling if it can add office paper to the items it accepts, said Christy Reed, recycling program manager. For the first time in four years, Reed now can answer that it soon will, by late November or early December. "We plan very soon to add office paper recycling and junk mail recycling to our newspaper recycling program," Reed said Monday. Those items will be accepted as soon as the 22 drop-off recycling bins can be re-labeled, she said. ...more

October 30, 2007

Meet the 22 Community Columnists you'll see appearing on our pages over the next year or so. Each clip contains their name, age, city of residence and a brief biography taken from their own applications. ...more

October 28, 2007

Regarding 'Change Rocks Media World' (Commentary, Sept. 30): Every morning, I huff, sigh, 'tsk' and groan my way through the newspaper. Disasters, warnings, scandals, reversals are everywhere. But the news is also necessarily informative, and often, positive, and I wouldn't be without it. I may go online for information, but it feels less personal - even though it may say 'local' - and reading at length onscreen is uncomfortable. The news connects us as members of a community and functions as our 'watchdog.' ...more

October 7, 2007

Dear Readers, Starting today, the newspaper you're reading is adapting to a page size that is quickly becoming the industry standard. ...more

October 1, 2007

A computer networking issue caused a delay in newspapers reaching subscribers of The Tampa Tribune on Saturday. ...more

September 30, 2007

Gloves drop down, fans stand up and two guys on skates square off. It's the image that immediately comes to mind when the phrase 'team toughness' is mentioned in NHL circles. Perhaps the thought of the Broad Street Bullies is conjured up, those intimidating Philadelphia teams that won back-to-back titles in 1974 and 1975 with the likes of Dave Schultz. ...more

September 28, 2007