With the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill on Aug. 1, our country created a new generation of potential college students from our nation's active-duty service members, reservists, National Guard members and veterans. We educators are thrilled about this advance, including those of us at Florida's private colleges and universities. ...more

November 11, 2009

Apparently, Francis Earl has slept through a decade of American history. In her latest pronouncement, she goes to great lengths to defend the American military and its veterans. But she greatly misstates two things. ...more

May 31, 2008

Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite is not only the lead House Republican co-sponsor of a new G.I. bill to expand education benefits to cover the costs of even the most expensive state universities for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. ...more

May 18, 2008

OPPOSES TAX HIKE TO FUND 'BROKEN PROMISE' TO VETS ...more

May 17, 2008

Two approaches at expanding and modernizing educational benefits to military veterans through a new GI bill are clashing in both the U.S. House and Senate. ...more

May 8, 2008

Area events and entertainment in the Hernando County area. ...more

February 1, 2008

Kipling memorialized the ability of a society to forget about its soldiers once the time of crisis had passed in his poem called "Tommy Atkins." Our country has on occasion shown a similar disregard for the welfare of our veterans as when President Hoover ordered Gen. McArthur to use force to drive a political protest of war veterans out of Washington, D.C. McArthur obliged by driving the marchers out of D.C. with fixed bayonets and ordered the burning of their encampment. Since then we have generally done better for our veterans, a farsighted G.I. Bill after World War II providing educational benefits, which well served the veterans and the nation for a generation. I personally will be forever grateful for the education I received under P.L. 550 at the end of the Korean War, without which I could never have attended college. ...more

October 12, 2007