Using the late Ralph Hughes, the Big Daddy of Hillsborough County politics, as the template for the community's Moral Courage Award is a bit like the NAACP naming its person-of-the-year honor after David Duke. ...more

September 16, 2008

Hillsborough County Commissioner Jim Norman is proposing renaming the county Moral Courage Award after the late Ralph Hughes, a political supporter of Norman and other conservative Republicans on the County Commission. ...more

September 13, 2008

As far back as the 17th century, the N-word, as it is called in its cleaned-up form, was the most despicable slur you could say to a black American. But in today's hip-hop culture, the word has evolved from a slur to a term of endearment for some young people, albeit with an alternative form of spelling. ...more

October 24, 2007