The Highlands County Legislative Delegation Meeting didn't sound like the sort of event where emotions would overflow, but pleas not to cut state funding came from people with drug addictions and mental illnesses, representatives of pregnant mothers and infant children, schools and South Florida Community College. ...more

December 12, 2009

An attempt to change the governmental charter is causing a controversy at this subdivision southeast of Sebring. ...more

November 29, 2009

Veterans Day 2009, "America's Shame," "No man left behind," shallow words indeed. ...more

October 29, 2009

The residents of Spring Lake subdivision are currently facing what is perhaps the most serious attempt by a public body to change forever the character, feel and costs associated with living here. ...more

April 12, 2009

The American morning paper is part of mom and apple pie, it is the sounding board of "all Americans," it cannot be allowed to financially cease to exist, just as public TV. The editorial page of every American newspaper is the most read part of any newspaper worldwide. It is news from the people from every walk of life. No nation can survive without "All" the news. ...more

April 8, 2009

A government of the people, for the people and by the people. We are no longer a democratic government. Somewhere along the line, we have a dictator type of rule, where those we have elected, "our employees," have taken control. ...more

March 17, 2009

America must recognize the fact that Mexico is in collapse. It is controlled by war lords just as China was in the early 1900s. The last 60 years have been very trying and costly for the United States. It has been a highway for illegal drugs and illegal movement of people into the United States, from all over the world. We have troops on the ground all around the world to help those nations from killing each other, yet we are ignoring our neighbor to the south whose death rate is not acceptable; in fact, it is reaching into the United States. ...more

February 14, 2009

Former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson held a voting-machine company responsible for a bungled November election count, but it didn't stop him from asking the vendor for a job. ...more

February 7, 2009

Between illegals and America's guest worker programs we may be looking at 20 million jobs, jobs held by the many guest workers and illegals. I would ask that the government look at all programs that bring foreign employees to our shores. The E-Verify program, if used, could ferret out most all of the illegal workers, which I suspect could be close to 20 million jobs that are lost to our citizens. This could re-employ millions of American laid-off workers. Many American industries refuse to hire American workers, claiming that they are "over educated for the job." Many engineers in American industry were laid off in the early 1980s by the aircraft and auto industries, etc. They were replaced with foreign engineers from India, China and nations of low wages. ...more

February 7, 2009

The 22nd Amendment of the Constitution proposed by the Republican Congress and ratified in 1951. The amendment limits a person to two full elected terms as president. ...more

January 9, 2009