Paloma strengthened to a minimal hurricane with winds near 75 mph on Thursday as it churned toward the Cayman Islands and Cuba. ...more

November 7, 2008

A new elected official will represent state House District 56 come January. ...more

October 19, 2008

If you are not making a living here in Highlands County, blame your local elected official. My husband works for Cross Country, like about 500 others here in Highlands County. Prior to locating their business here in Highlands County, Cross Country's intentions were to pay more per hour than they are currently paying. Our wonderful local city councilmen at that time negotiated with Cross Country and they nixed the higher pay that Cross Country was going to offer their employees. The reason was the city councilmen were concerned that if Cross Country paid as much as they were intending to pay, local business would not be able to compete and Cross Country would depreciate the local employee pool making the low cost employee unavailable to our local businessmen. Their reasoning was that this would hurt the local businessman. ...more

May 19, 2008

Improvements Needed Regarding "Plan Is No Walk In The Park" (Feb. 8): The concept of a Riverwalk, river park or river culture center highlighting the Hillsborough River is a wonderful and exciting concept. However, several things about the project as now presented should be improved. ...more

February 16, 2008

When elected officials repeatedly miss public meetings and workshops over a period of months, even due to illness, it's time they step down because they're not doing their jobs effectively. And they need to muster the courage to admit it. ...more

December 2, 2007

Sen. Bill Nelson told Florida Democrats on Saturday that the national party sanctions and candidate boycott against Florida and the boycott of the state's primary by presidential candidates, if not ended, will hurt the party's chances of winning Florida in the 2008 election. ...more

October 28, 2007