Re: Tom Cannariato's comment on my recent letter to the editor. ...more

October 31, 2009

Mark Wheeler of Lake Placid has been elected as a southern area vice president at the Florida Citrus Industry Annual Conference. ...more

June 29, 2009

Susan Finney (June 11) writes that we should have what she call a constitutional basic freedom right to choose the consumption of raw milk. Raw milk can carry Listeria, a tough little bacterium. It can travel through the nervous system and cause meningitis, can infect the unborn child of a pregnant woman and can kill. In severe infections, fatality rate can be as high as 25 percent. ...more

June 20, 2009

Jim Rahenkamp postulates that "the silver tongued Pied Piper of Change" has led us down the slope so far and with such momentum that we have reached the point of no return. He states, "Capitalism requires that production must exceed consumption" and "We no longer export more than we import." I assume this was meant to imply that this condition has come about during the less than six months that President Obama has been in office. ...more

June 17, 2009

Is it possible to change "change," or has the charismatic, silver tongued Pied Piper of "Change" led us down the slope so far and with such momentum that we have reached the point of no return? Capitalism requires that production must exceed consumption. Socialism (veiled Communism) requires that consumption must exceed production. No individual, city, state or nation can long endure when consumption exceeds production. We no longer export more than we import. ...more

June 15, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Hillsborough County bikini bars over a county law restricting such businesses. ...more

April 30, 2009

Heavy water users could get soaked with a drought surcharge on their bills under a recommendation by regional regulators. ...more

April 25, 2009

What if someone told you turkey doesn't make you tired or that your nails really don't keep growing after you die? ...more

March 14, 2009

what they should do and how they should cope - are everywhere. ...more

March 5, 2009

PLANT CITY The Florida Strawberry Festival may be all about celebrating the area's most famous crop, but other agricultural products are also featured. ...more

February 19, 2009