Gratitude will be the theme of Keillor's pre-Thanksgiving one-man show at the Straz Center on Tuesday night. ...more

November 23, 2009

Just when it looked like the sky was falling, President Barack Obama and the federal government came to Florida's rescue with a $12.2 billion stimulus gift. No state needed it more. ...more

March 1, 2009

The Florida Strawberry Festival queen and court have again drawn national attention and will be profiled in an upcoming television spot on ABC. ...more

February 25, 2009

Festival queen Lauren Der and court members — first maid Sara Beth Newsome, Megan Cochran, Joclyn Emerson and Morgan Feaster — are being profiled by "Good Morning America's" Saturday feature program in a bimonthly segment, "American Snapshot." ...more

February 24, 2009

The deserted houses and heartbroken homeowners in Florida's newest suburbs are the subject of a devastating article in the current New Yorker magazine. The selected snapshots show bleaker scenes in Hillsborough and Pasco counties than most of us who live here will recognize. ...more

February 15, 2009

In its recent anniversary issue, the New Yorker magazine took a look at the state of affairs here in Florida. Apparently there is nothing amiss in the Empire State worthy of note. So it declares things here a real mess, thanks to the collapse of the real estate market. While it told of some foreclosure hardship tales from southwestern Florida, the ground zero of the devastation, according to the New Yorker, is good old Pasco County. ...more

February 11, 2009

Plant City Native Wins Journalism Award Plant City native Anne Hull, a Washington Post reporter who helped expose mistreatment of wounded war veterans, is this year's recipient of the Lovejoy Award. ...more

October 15, 2008

PLANT CITY Plant City native Anne Hull, a Washington Post reporter who helped expose mistreatment of wounded war veterans, is this year's recipient of the Lovejoy Award. ...more

October 9, 2008

Last week was vacation time for me, and it featured a family trip to the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon, San Diego and a stop at Disneyland in Anaheim. The original Disney complex, which opened in 1955, pales in comparison to our Disneyworld in Orlando that came along some 16 years later. ...more

August 13, 2008

A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Plant City native has written a lengthy article for The New Yorker magazine on the Florida Strawberry Festival queen's pageant. Headlined "The Strawberry Girls," the article by Anne Hull hit the newsstands Monday. ...more

August 7, 2008