It is no wonder it costs the city plenty for emergency medical response teams. Every day there is an accident on Interstate 4. Why? People drive too fast. ...more

August 21, 2009

which have done as much to hurt development as colonialism ever did. That's why after four decades and billions of dollars in aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa remain among the world's poorest. ...more

July 5, 2008

I'm sure by now everybody has seen the beating of the Polk County teenage girl on TV or read about it in the newspaper. What is underlying this matter is the blatant disrespect and lack of consequences these and other young people have today in this society. It has to start with the parents and is shared with the school system right up to and including the liberal justice system. ...more

April 10, 2008

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig should have been fired long ago for his incompetence in handling the game's steroid era. ...more

January 28, 2008

Allstate agents were back at their desks Friday after a Tallahassee court lifted the state's order preventing the company from selling insurance in Florida. ...more

January 19, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - A Tallahassee court has lifted the state's order preventing Allstate companies from selling insurance in Florida. ...more

January 18, 2008

The state's feud with Allstate Corp. heated up Thursday, with the company appealing an order forbidding it from doing future business in Florida after regulators expanded their ban from auto policies to all new insurance products the company sells. ...more

January 18, 2008

The state's feud with Allstate Corp. escalated again today, with Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty forbidding the insurer from writing any new policies in Florida – expanding the ban from simply auto insurance. ...more

January 17, 2008

Regulators' brash move to boot Allstate Corp. out of Florida's future auto insurance market sharply raises the stakes in the state's investigations of additional homeowners insurance companies and how they set their rates. ...more

January 17, 2008

A $54,000 contract for a wellness consultant approved by Hillsborough County School Board members needs to be rescinded, one board member said Monday. ...more

October 30, 2007