grandparents, mother, myself, five siblings, aunt, uncle and two cousins from Michigan, along with the Kinderman family (four people). The big draw in Hernando was basically two things: the great weather; and it was cheap to live here, for a fairly nice, quaint region. ...more

February 22, 2008

Those who oppose abortions call those who are pro-choice morally corrupt. One columnist even reasoned that there would not be illegal aliens in this country if those 50 million aborted babies had lived. Those 50 million would have jobs, thus negating the need to import illegals. With that rationale, all those policies by President Bush would be justified. Please follow this logic. Even that great conservative, President Reagan, justifiably out-sourced 5 million jobs because 20 million babies were aborted. He even penalized the taxpayers by using their taxes to fund the transfer of factories off shore. In addition, he allowed those manufacturers to take their profits off shore to avoid paying taxes and allowed them to compete with those who stayed in country for more contracts to be off shored. Who would have believed such a scenario? Not I! ...more

January 30, 2008

Valerie Iengo of Port Richey says the nation's economic problems are severe, contradicting Ernest Lane's letter "No Crisis." ...more

January 29, 2008

Several editorials in the Highlands Today have come out against the Florida Hometown Democracy ballot proposal. That is unfortunate, but not surprising, as a newspaper is a "business" and depends upon the number of paid subscribers it has. The more people moving into the newspaper's area, the better chance there is to increase sales. This may be called the "gold" factor. I call it the "greed" factor. ...more

December 5, 2007

Regarding "Mortgage CEO Wants A Federal Rescue" (Business, Dec. 4): The mortgage mess is about to get messier. The bailout proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will spread the mess to tax-exempt bond funds, stealing money from many retirees that have invested in the bond funds to get by in retirement. It all deprives income that eases the burden on the taxpayers of this country. ...more

December 5, 2007

Four young men charged with unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor have not been strangers to police. Still, nothing came close to what they faced Saturday. ...more

December 2, 2007

How About Other Parks? Regarding "Safety Trumps Segway At Disney Parks" (Our Opinion, Nov. 13): ...more

November 20, 2007

I thought that price gouging was supposed to be illegal? The price of oil is set by Halliburton, and the rest of the oil cartel, not by the Iraqis, or Saudi Arabia. So why hasn't our elected officials done anything to stop this fleecing of the people? Or are they all bought off by the oil cartel to look the other way? That's just another example of greed and corruption within free enterprise. This is why I am voting all incumbents out of office. Maybe some day our corrupt politicians will get the message that the people are fed up with their corrupt cronyism. ...more

November 17, 2007

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and ranking member of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has for years been suspicious of televangelists who rake in fortunes, own fancy cars and jet across the country ostensibly in the service of God. Like many of us, he questions whether the accumulation of great wealth or power in the service of the Almighty is more about greed than spiritual awareness. ...more

November 7, 2007

The Bush administration, and their cronies, are doing everything in their power to provoke Iran into doing something to give Bush a reason to attack them.Now, placing sanctions against Iran is just another means to provoke them. Greed has taken control of Bush, Chaney and Haliburton. Haliburton was given a no-bid contract to pump and steal Iraqi oil. Now they want to steal and control Iranian oil as well. ...more

October 27, 2007