Now that the incident of Harvard Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley has ended with a "happy hour" with the president, one wonders why our president got involved in the matter. ...more

August 5, 2009

In 1960, when Russia's Khrushchev observed John Kennedy's cowardly abandonment of America's promise to provide air cover for the Cuban exile invader force at Bay of Pigs, he perceived Kennedy as spineless and began moving Russian missiles into Cuba. We were brought to the brink of nuclear war. ...more

February 6, 2009

2008 Deaths Of Note In The Tampa Bay Area ...more

December 29, 2008

Key moments in Cuba's past 50 years: ...more

December 20, 2008

In the palace of a fallen dictator, the grade-school kids in their red Communist Pioneer bandanas are getting their mandatory introduction to the glories of the revolution. ...more

December 20, 2008

Cuba's communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America's punitive trade and travel embargo. ...more

November 9, 2008

Cuba's communist leadership has long cast itself as David standing up to the U.S. Goliath and the crippling force of America's punitive trade and travel embargo. ...more

November 8, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain told voters in this key electoral state Tuesday he was personally tested by the same kind of crisis that Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden warned Sen. Barack Obama will almost certainly face if elected president. ...more

October 22, 2008

Two things, and only two things, are off-limits in the examination of Rose Fernandez's life: "My age and my weight. I don't discuss them." Otherwise, her experiences, decisions, associations, philosophies and maybe even - assuming one thought to ask - shoe size are open for inspection. ...more

October 22, 2008

Mention the authentic Cuban food in the New Port Richey area and most everyone will direct you to Juan's Black Bean Cafe, an eatery that has become a dining tradition in the West Pasco area. This month Juan de Sosa opened his second cafe, on U.S. 19 north of Alderman Road, with partner Tom Hoglund. The restaurant's menu includes dishes made from recipes de Sosa learned from his grandmother. ...more

September 20, 2008