Former Florida State Sen. Helen Gordon Davis will be honored Oct. 16 at a luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Tampa hosted by the Centre for Women and the Displaced Homemakers Network. The senator’s long and distinguished legislative career was highlighted by her work promoting the civil rights of women and children. She founded the Centre for Women, [...]
Please tell me why the person used to demonstrate the new body scanning machines at Tampa International Airport – as seen on the Metro front in Friday’s St. Petersburg Times - is a buff young woman and not a fat old man? Whomever she is – let’s call her Big Boobs Girl – certainly does not represent [...]
If you’re not already depressed about the state of our state, don’t read the story in Time magazine that seems to suggest that the Sunshine State is crashing and burning. Writer Michael Grunwald, who lives in Miami, says there is trouble in paradise. “We’re facing our worst real estate meltdown since the Depression. We’ve got a water [...]
A caveat first. Mary Jordan, who co-stars in the New Tampa Players production of Same Time Next Year for the next couple of weekends at the Carrollwood Cultural Center is my niece. So I’m biased. That said, the two-act play, which also stars Marc Sanders, is a hoot. Sander and Jordan reprise the rolls played by Ellen [...]
Any woman past a certain age can remember a time when gender bias was open, blatant, ugly. Gender discrimination is still around, but these days it’s usually more subtle than the historic kind and the kind that was aimed at Hillary Clinton during her run for the Democratic nomination for president. PMS jokes, mood swing jokes, [...]
If so, visit this link: Bolleas’ jail tapes anger victim’s father. I read this story in the St. Petersburg Times this morning and almost lost my breakfast. Apparently, the Pinellas County Jail released telephone conversations between Nick Bollea and his family to the public. In one conversation, Linda Bollea – one half of the pair that created [...]
I confess I’m a political junkie. I also confess I assume – stupidly, I guess – that most people are at least somewhat informed about the what’s going on in politics these days. So when my yard dude and his co-worker both disavowed me of that notion Tuesday it broke my heart. “You guys vote [...]
Yes, I know. Confidentiality is important when it comes to mental health patients, families in crisis and so forth. But when it comes to taking a child into your home, whether through adoption or foster care, you ought to have information from the child’s background that will allow you to make rational decisions. We have, yet again, [...]
I’ll just lay it all out and put it bluntly. Paris needs a home. Jack Talman found the adorable black and white momma and her five kittens in the woods near a Shell gas station in Plant City. The cats were lucky Talman found them. His commitment to animals, particularly free-roaming and stray cats, [...]
