The Baltimore Ravens handed Denver its first loss by using the same blueprint the Broncos employed to win their first six games. ...more

November 2, 2009

Grocery prices Last week Publix had a particular variety of tomato on sale. The Tribune published an article on the big drop in tomato prices and included that in a story that implied Publix was paying too little for produce, causing hardship on farmworkers. ...more

October 31, 2009

Logan Smith is looking forward to his next trip to the mall. "It's always nice to beat someone from the county," said Smith after he went 2-for-2 with a double, sacrifice fly and two RBI to lead the LP baseball team to a 6-3 victory over Avon Park on the second day of the Bill Jarrett Spring Break Tournament at Scarborough Field. "It gives us more confidence going into districts, and when we go to the mall and you see someone from Avon Park you can hold your head up." ...more

April 2, 2009

The title of Alice Schroeder's biography about Warren Buffett is "Snowball -- Warren Buffett and the Business of Life." Schroeder opens her story with a vignette about a day in Buffett's childhood when he recalls catching a snowflake on his hand and then two more until he gets a handful, enough to roll a snowball unstopping through the world. As a child, Buffett was always engrossed with numbers. He counted things over and over again. As soon as he was old enough, he took an after school job delivering newspapers and then another before school. Very shortly, he had a very respectable bank account that he was always trying to figure out ways to make larger. Schroeder writes a very detailed summary of his life from early childhood until his current status as the world's richest man. Buffett assisted and aided Schroeder in her research. She reports he had a few bumps along the way and lost some money but he used each failure as a learning tool and used it to build his dynasty. He and his wife Susie have a great partnership together and most of all, he says, he did his Dad proud. ...more

March 25, 2009

"They're breaking into the building next door. All the tools behind the building are being stolen." ...more

March 19, 2009

Most people have watched as controversy churns in Sun 'n Lake of Sebring concerning the way the improvement district elects board members. This paper has weighed in on the matter as well. In a few days there will be an opportunity to change that, and we hope those who can cast a ballot in the board of supervisors election support Dick Miller for Seat 1. ...more

January 18, 2009

A single dive does not make a season, and Avon Park's John Chittum has proved that he belongs with the top divers around, even if the end results didn't turn out the way he envisioned. ...more

January 4, 2009

Efforts to hold an election to unionize county government employees are on hold until a state agency gives the go-ahead. ...more

November 15, 2008

Efforts to hold an election to unionize county government employees are on hold until a state agency gives the go-ahead. ...more

November 15, 2008

In the opening scene of "Fiddler On The Roof," the embattled dairyman, Tevye, fantasizes about being a wealthy man whose advice is sought by "the most important men in town," whereupon he sings this profound disclaimer: "And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong; when you're rich, they think you really know." Similarly, since I became a father, near about six decades ago, there is a presumption that I have acquired a substantial measure of expertise regarding that occupation. ...more

June 17, 2008