County experiencing a turnip crop failure I am beginning to hear the distant drums beating for a state income tax. These drums need to be silenced before they become a misguided movement that will promised great tax relief only to find that the promised relief disappeared somewhere in Tallahassee. ...more

November 19, 2007

A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats' top-priority domestic spending bill and the party's Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq. ...more

November 14, 2007

Democrat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York marked Veterans Day by calling for new assistance programs, but said she would move more carefully than her rivals on dealing with looming shortfalls facing the Social Security system. ...more

November 12, 2007

Democrat Kim Bogart has announced plans to run against Pasco County Sheriff Bob White. ...more

November 7, 2007

Kathleen Casey-Kirschling's name won't come up much during the presidential campaign, but it should. Casey-Kirschling, born on Jan. 1, 1946 at 12:00:01 a.m., is the first baby boomer. ...more

October 12, 2007

It's the money job. If you are thinking billionaire investors, bankers, hedge fund managers or oil barons, guess again. ...more

September 9, 2007