One of the leading controversies on the Sunday TV talk shows was the appropriateness of the government imposing limits on the executive compensation packages of those corporations which have been bailed out with tax funds. A moment's reflection on the fact that the taxpayer now stands in the place of the stockholder as the owner of these companies should be a sufficient justification for these limits. Stockholders, as the owners of a corporation, originally set the compensation of its officers and employees, but over the years, the officers and boards of directors, through a series of strategies, wrested control from the stockholders and, treating the companies as their own, set their own compensations without regard for the wishes of the true owners, the stockholders. Their view? If you don't like it, sell you stock. A board room "coup de corps!" ...more

October 27, 2009

Her four-year tenure plagued with difficulties and controversies, Carolyn Bivens resigned as LPGA commissioner Monday, bowing to pressure from players who were upset about her leadership and the tour's economic woes. ...more

July 14, 2009

Not long after the regular season begins next month, Gary Sheffield likely will hit the 500th home run of his career. He needs one more to join a club currently occupied by only 24 other players in Major League Baseball history. ...more

March 5, 2009

Manny Ramirez, Curt Schilling and their controversies are gone. The gray hairs on Theo Epstein's head have started to sprout. ...more

February 13, 2009

Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent. ...more

September 3, 2008

Developer Gene Thomason has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of misusing property owners association dues. ...more

August 25, 2008

Danny Burgess was elected to the Zephyrhills City Council at 18. Now 22, he will leave as council president. ...more

July 16, 2008

We've seen the federal government at its worst over the past six months. Consider the controversies over contaminated tomatoes and meat, tainted toys, toxic trailers, counterfeit heparin, aircraft groundings, veterans' care, missing warheads and unrelenting contract fraud. For every NASA success on the surface of Mars, there seems to be a failure back on Earth. ...more

July 13, 2008

SARASOTA COUNTY — Children, uncleared felons, British vacationers and just about anybody else will be able to vote today in what will be an unusual election, even by Florida standards. ...more

July 8, 2008

A general whose command of the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from 2004 to 2006 was marked by controversies over the treatment of prisoners is the new chief of staff at U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base. ...more

June 21, 2008