Almost 15 years after purchasing the Buccaneers for $192 million, the Glazers find themselves being pilloried on both sides of the Atlantic. ...more

October 23, 2009

After reading the letter from Ms. Fredlake, I was left in dismay by her summation of the Tom Rooney meeting. The 500-plus people in attendance were soundly behind what Rep. Rooney had to say about the health care bill and the excessive debt proposed by the current administration. ...more

September 4, 2009

When (oh when!) will the people and government of the United States learn the basic facts of personal and national economic life? ...more

March 30, 2009

The plans for a sparkling new Holiday Inn Express were under way two years ago and construction began less than a year later. ...more

March 6, 2009

One of his opponents called Tim Mahoney, D-Palm Beach Gardens, the luckiest guy around. Mahoney seemed to have no chance when he filed against six-term incumbent Mark Foley, but seven weeks before the election, the Republican confessed to being gay after allegations he solicited sex in e-mails to teenaged House pages. ...more

October 12, 2008

Tom Rooney, 37, is almost stereotypically Irish. He's tall, red-haired, flush-faced, freckled, and built like a lumberjack. Actually, he's a former tight end, an Army veteran and an attorney. ...more

October 12, 2008

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the practices of a national helicopter flight school with a branch in Lakeland that filed bankruptcy and closed in February. ...more

May 24, 2008

LAKELAND - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the practices of a national helicopter flight school with a branch in Lakeland that filed bankruptcy and closed in February. ...more

May 23, 2008

The Bush administration and the Republican Congress of 2001 buried the economy with the Alternative Minimum Tax. The first thing they did was to ditch pay-as-you-go to make the Medicare private prescription plan seem affordable in 2003. Shortly after massive tax breaks were given to oil and pharmaceutical companies. According to OMB.org: "Those tax cuts were designed to increase the amount of taxes paid through the A.M.T. The tax policy center, which has written extensively about A.M.T., notes that tax cuts enacted between 200l-2006 have more than doubled the projected share of tax payers who will face the A.M.T. in 2010 (from 16 to 33.6 percent). ...more

January 25, 2008

In the 1980s, scientists sounded the alarm: The Amazon was burning and would be gone by the end of the century. ...more

December 14, 2007