Alarmed by the sharply eroding confidence in the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, the Bush administration Sunday asked Congress to approve a sweeping rescue package that would give officials the power to inject billions of federal dollars into the beleaguered companies through investments and loans. ...more

July 14, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, seeking to reach out to religious voters, proposed strengthening the White House program assisting faith-based social service organization Tuesday, while insisting those groups not discriminate against aid recipients or aid workers. ...more

July 2, 2008

Frances Earl has been given the privilege and honor by Hernando Today to appear on the editorial page, and I would expect Ms. Earl to be more informative when writing her columns. ...more

May 28, 2008

TAMPA – A building contractor who admitted taking bribes from former city housing chief Steve LaBrake has been released early from his probation sentence. ...more

May 9, 2008

With more states declining an abstinence-only approach to sex education, Florida remains a big promoter of abstinence education, even as new studies show the emphasis is failing to keep many kids from having sex. ...more

January 2, 2008

A long-range transit plan approved Tuesday would have trains and buses crisscrossing Hillsborough County, but officials say the plan is decades - and billions of dollars - from being realized. ...more

November 7, 2007

Republican Fred Thompson said Tuesday that the government should yank federal dollars from cities and states that don't report illegal immigrants. ...more

October 24, 2007

Your Oct. 5 editorial left readers with the mistaken impression that the school district has done nothing to address the health needs of our students and the loss of funding for health programs. ...more

October 11, 2007

The key witness who testified against former Tampa housing chief Steve LaBrake has fulfilled the financial terms of his sentence, court documents show. ...more

September 14, 2007

Highlands County commissioners this week committed county staff to assist the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in finishing land acquisition for a national wildlife refuge at Flamingo Villas. ...more

September 13, 2007