I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled the entire length of the frontier numerous times, dined and slept in just about every border town on both sides and chatted with folks of high and low life throughout. ...more

February 21, 2009

These families are cooking now. Parents and children recently learned healthy cooking alternatives by cooking a meal as part of a class in the Fit4All Kids program put on by the James P. Gills Family YMCA and All Children's Hospital. ...more

August 13, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY "You can't turn on the TV the past few days without hearing something about tomatoes and salmonella" Betsy Crisp, Pasco County Extension family and consumer sciences agent, said in a press release. "Things have been changing almost daily and you just need to be alert – but do not panic." ...more

June 16, 2008

Not long ago, the fledgling ethanol industry was the darling of investors, farmers, the federal government and a lot of Americans who liked the idea of turning corn into fuel. ...more

May 22, 2008

the synthetic form of folate. ...more

February 5, 2008