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From middle school through high school, if the Audio-Visual Club kids rolled a television into a room and we were told we would hear a president, it would be one person, Richard Nixon. I did not know it, but I...

We have a president who is well-spoken on a breathtaking range of issues. But no matter how smart, poised and briefed you are, there will always be those pesky, unexpected little gaps in your knowledge of the world. And you...

There are many styles of beach walker. I am a dusk beach walker, low-impact recreational division. In August, beach walkers generally divide between morning and evening walkers, and I am no morning person. Problems? Download it here....

Dez was not a good cat. From a young age he suffered in comparison to cats around him. Maybe that was the root of things. Problems? Download it here....

A Port Orange tourist attraction that closed its doors more than a half century ago is finding new life on the Internet as a symbol of a lost era of roadside tourism. The Atomic Tunnel was in the Harbor Oaks...

Your correspondent is sensitive to the way his hometown is portrayed in the media. Usually he is dismayed. He is upset whenever his environs appear on CNN's "Nancy Grace," something which happens with rather shocking frequency.(Problems? Download it here.)...

I looked around the kitchen and it looked no different from three years ago. Sure, a little wear with slight improvements. But it doesn't look like the kind of dump that would lose $53,000 in value in only three years....

Your correspondent did not sleaze his way into this business because he showed the slightest promise as a writer or reporter but because he could perform the dark alchemy of film and print processing. Turning black-and-white chemical specks into publishable...

Your correspondent has long maintained that far from being seasonless, Florida has five seasons: spring, summer, ultra-summer, fallish and winterish. Usually, ultra-summer starts in mid-July. This year, it's here already. Earlier than any year in recent memory. Problems? Download it...

Guess what? After years of award-winning work creating parks, aiding cultural programs, building trails and protecting natural areas, yup, ECHO is on its way to becoming a parking-lot fund. County officials are proposing it be used to build parking near...

There are only two parts of the business cycle when the Florida environment is in danger -- good times and bad times. In good times, condos burst from the ground, cranes rise above the tree lines and local government can't...