Obama Elected To Help Americans elected Barack Obama president instead of John McCain because we need jobs, not more tax cuts for the wealthy. Trickle-down economics crashed with the stock market. ...more

February 16, 2009

Tell Neighbors To Vote 'No' ...more

November 1, 2008

If re-elected on Nov. 4, state Sen. Mike Fasano would serve his last term. ...more

October 27, 2008

SEBRING The Sebring Police Department is advising the public to be wary of folks who might approach them and say they have won the Florida lottery. On Wednesday, Officer John Garrison met with a fraud victim, who said she met an unidentified Hispanic male and female at Winn-Dixie. The man told her he had won $3 million in the lottery, but could not cash the ticket because he was in the country illegally, according to an offense report. ...more

October 16, 2008

The growth of Florida's popular Bright Futures scholarship is far outpacing increases in lottery education money that pays for the award. ...more

February 21, 2008

What if that toll road you often drive on business or vacation was privately owned? How about your state lottery being leased by investors from another state? Would tolls skyrocket? Would you trust the integrity of the lottery? All of these things could happen if the state decides to privatize some of its holdings to make big bucks. It sounds like a bad idea. Gov. Charlie Crist is listening to private investors who want to lease items like the Florida Lottery and toll roads, such as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, for huge chunks of change. In return for their billions of dollars, they would have the ability to market these things, and possibly raise prices, for decades to come. With Florida's $1.1 billion budget deficit, state leaders are listening to investors who might pay upward of $31 billion for the lottery system. According to an article in The Tampa Tribune, investors would then get something like a 40-year lease of the proceeds. ...more

September 28, 2007