In a workshop on Tuesday, the Highlands County Commissioners will discuss a request for mandatory use of two federal programs to check the legal employment status of people hired by the county and by companies with a county contract. ...more

February 6, 2009

By midnight Tuesday, millions of conservatives probably will believe that the nation, foundering on the reefs of sin, is ruined. And millions of "progressives," emboldened to embrace truth in labeling by again calling themselves liberals, probably will have decided that Heaven is at hand, the nation revived like a flower in an April shower. ...more

November 2, 2008

A leading Sunni political party's headquarters in western Iraq was blown up early Thursday morning, and in southern Iraq, where Shiite factions have been fighting one another, a powerful bomb was discovered on the road to an important Shiite shrine. ...more

June 13, 2008

A Major Candidate Regarding "Learn Where Each Candidate Stands Before Casting Your Vote," My View, Luis Lopez, Jan. 20: ...more

January 25, 2008

The former world chess champion Garry Kasparov entered Russia's presidential race on Sunday, elected overwhelmingly as the candidate for the country's beleaguered opposition coalition. ...more

October 1, 2007