Ernest Hooper: Legal giants inspire campaign to fight cancer among blacks
A tapestry of remarkable stories enveloped the Hilton Tampa Downtown ballroom on Monday night at the George Edgecomb Bar Association's annual dinner. You had the former bar president who doctors...
View ArticleHoward Altman: Why we're so sure Assad is to blame for chemical attacks
Russia and Syria dismiss as a hoax the claims that the regime of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons in the rebel-held enclave of Douma on April 7.So just how did the U.S. conclude...
View ArticleJoe Henderson: Big plans for downtown towers put cart before the horse
There was a time when no one here could imagine a 52-story building in what passed for downtown Tampa. Structures like that were reserved for real cities, with actual skylines and lively...
View ArticleQueena celebrates 10 years of survival on Sunday
TAMPA - The Story Lives On, a celebration for Queena the Bloomingdale Library Survivor, runs from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday (April 29) at the Tampa Woman's Club, 2901 Bayshore Blvd.Family, friends and...
View ArticleSeffner's Johnny Doan Plumbing nears its 50th anniversary
SEFFNER - When Jimmy Waldrop walked the halls of Armwood High in the late 1980s, boys wore skinny ties and girls styled big hair-dos with big curls.In between looking like Sonny Crockett and dating his...
View ArticleWhitman: Gospel star Travis Greene looks to create a culture change
Gospel recording artist Travis Greene doesn't just believe in life after death.He experienced it, he says.At 4 years old, Greene fell four stories from a building window in Germany. Doctors pronounced...
View ArticleBrandon's New Horizons expands mission for special need adults
BRANDON - It began nearly a quarter century ago as casual conversations among friends at First Baptist Church Brandon.Some parents in the congregation and surrounding community worried about how their...
View ArticleAmy Scherzer's Diary: Weekly Wrap-Up of the Tampa Social Scene
Tampa Bay Heart Ball Five-time heart attack survivor and former Vice President Dick Cheney flew directly from First Lady Barbara Bush's funeral to the Tampa Bay Heart Ball, invited by American Heart...
View ArticleEditorial: There's a right way to revamp county commission. This isn't it
Proposals to reconsider how Hillsborough County voters elect their local leaders are a good idea.But not in the ways they're being presented by the County Commission's Republican majority. These are...
View ArticleHillsborough's new 'Achievement Zone' plan is rolled out to community leaders...
TAMPA - Tricia McManus came to East Tampa with a message: We're ready to bring equity to Hillsborough County's schools.Not equality, which would mean giving every school the exact same things, but...
View ArticleEnterprising Latinas program promotes culinary business dreams
WIMAUMA - Dining out in Wimauma is about to get a whole lot better.That's because 11 women and one gentleman from Enterprising Latinas just completed an eight-week course to become certified, licensed...
View ArticleSunday Conversation: FAMU president Larry Robinson looks to keep the flame...
Hundreds of FAMU faithful gathered April 21 for a Tampa gala to raise more than 560 million, but critics of the state Legislature insist the standards don't take into account the school's unique...
View ArticleMAKING THE GRADE
Jessica Fernandez, 27, remembers racing to class carrying an oversized backpack through the hallowed halls of the University of Tampa, dodging other students and never accepting any assistance while...
View ArticleRegistration still open for Hillsborough County's Neighborhoods Conference
Registration for the 2018 Hillsborough County Neighborhoods Conference is open now until Sunday (May 6). The deadline was extended to May 6 to help include more residents in the Hillsborough County...
View ArticleDaniel Ruth: David Straz now has the party affiliation and the money to run...
Epiphanies come in many forms. And apparently Tampa's own Daddy Warbucks, David Straz, had a spiritual awakening when he fell off his Gulfstream on the way to the Hamptons.At the age of 75, the retired...
View ArticleJoe Henderson: Is your kid's substitute teacher up to snuff? Hillsborough...
Note to the leaders of the Hillsborough County School District: You are a partner in what amounts to a preemptive cover-up, and that needs to be changed.Quickly.When substitute teachers wig out and do...
View ArticleHoward Altman: Headed to AirFest at MacDill? Here's what you'll need to know
The Tampa Bay AirFest at MacDill Air Force Base, coming up May 12 and 13, should be a lot of fun for those who enjoy seeing F-18s, F-22s and A-10s, and a host of private aerobatic acts buzzing...
View ArticleFuture use of old firehouse splits Wimauma community
WIMAUMA - A proposed plan to repurpose the Hillsborough County building that once served as Wimauma's fire station is being met with opposition.Catholic Charities envisions transforming the firehouse...
View ArticleHooper: Phelan Family partners with Moffitt to honor high school scholars
One student cared for her mother as she battled breast cancer.Another overcame a poverty-stricken upbringing. Two others endured the death of a parent, including one who witnessed her stepfather...
View Article'Dork' fondly cherishes his Brandon High prom recollections
BRANDON - Before I get to the part where my friend is standing in a cheap rented tux with his sweaty prom date on the side of Interstate 4 next to a dead Corvette, let me get one thing clear.My friend...
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