As the University of South Florida prepares to announce its budget-cutting plan this week, its faculty union is saying, not so fast. ...more

May 20, 2008

For most people, it's just a bummer when a TV company cancels their favorite show. But fans of the now defunct CBS show "Jericho" are taking the loss of their show a bit harder. ...more

May 10, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County Commissioner Andy Jackson said the University of Florida is still his "favorite university." But Jackson remains concerned over recent comments made by J. Bernard Machen, the president of the University of Florida Jackson, a graduate of the UF and a lifelong Gators supporter, said he does not agree with Machen's published comment that "agriculture is a dying industry in the state of Florida." Machen, who came to UF in 2003 from the University of Utah, also infuriated agriculture interests when he added that agriculture in Florida "is not worthy of the investment being made by the legislature" in the state's extension service program. Machen was quoted as saying the university's agriculture extension service should take the brunt of the $25 million in budget cuts slated for ...more

February 25, 2008

John Tischner of Dunedin says passage of Amendment No. 1 does not spell doom for public education. ...more

February 16, 2008

Investors weren't at their finest Tuesday. A tsunami of selling drove the Dow Jones average down 464 points, only to bounce back and end the day off 128 points. Big rises and falls continued through the week. ...more

January 27, 2008

Economists and politicians can debate all they want about whether the nation is sliding into its first recession in nearly seven years. To Chuck Rizzo, the picture is clear. ...more

January 22, 2008

A fierce snowstorm raced across northern New England on Monday after burying parts of Massachusetts, dumping as much as 20 inches of snow in some places and forcing classes to be canceled at hundreds of schools. ...more

January 15, 2008

Soldiers, Not Guards Regarding 'the Perils Of Privatizing Security' (Our Opinion, Oct. 5): ...more

October 12, 2007