I’ve been switching beats, from covering the county commissioners to covering business. There’s been an important change in how county commissioners are covered by the news media, and I thought I’d share it with you.

Did you know that you can post an event free on Funcoast? All you have to do is sign up for an (also free) account.

November and December are usually reserved for movie talk, because this is when every studio pushes their best films just in time for the Academy Awards.

Every so often we get questions about why a story cannot be found online. The fact is, we do not post online every news story we print.

You may have noticed a little orange icon with the initials RSS has appeared at the top of our stories.

How do you spell purgatory on television? N-B-C.

Too often, politics and sports mix. It’s unfortunate, but they always have and likely always will.

But in a world where there’s rarely an absolute right and an absolute wrong — and these days, those almost always involve body counts — tennis has usually fallen on the correct side.

Here are some excerpts from a list of 100 facts about Jack Bauer:

1. Jack Bauer once stepped into quicksand. The quicksand couldn't escape and nearly drowned.

Warner Brothers went ahead and made my day.

Last week, the movie studio released the first full-length trailer for "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood's next film, which will be released Dec. 17.