City officials trying to balance community needs with safety at the annual Gasparilla Parade have come up with these compromises: ...more

November 6, 2009

Veterans Day is a federal holiday meant to honor military personnel who have sacrificed their lives for the good of our nation. ...more

November 4, 2009

Come on, Ginny In response to Ginny Brown-Waite ("Letter over Obama Nobel criticized," Metro, Oct. 28): Are you kidding me? ...more

November 1, 2009

Let's move on I am over this useless loss of life that we are seeing daily in two very unnecessary wars. ...more

October 29, 2009

Drunken partygoers fighting, destroying property and urinating in backyards. ...more

October 21, 2009

During the past several months, Gasparilla Parade organizers have met with neighborhood groups, local business owners and city officials and have come up with a new strategy they say should curtail the bad behavior without putting a damper on the city's signature event. ...more

October 20, 2009

The new Gasparilla Parade of the Pirates route through downtown was unveiled this week, and the response to the change has been positive, said Darrell Stefany, president of EventFest, which organizes the event. ...more

October 3, 2009

Most of us would need to train to run a 5K, but for Doug Morton, running a 5K is only a small part of his training. ...more

March 30, 2009

One of the biggest complaints about the 2009 Gasparilla Pirate Fest was about long lines outside portable bathrooms. ...more

March 27, 2009

The Hillsborough County Health Department says this year's Gasparilla Fest had only a third as many portable toilets as it should have. ...more

March 26, 2009