SEBRING — Bill Nelson lives in Tallahassee, but he started Friday morning in Fort Myers. A northeasterly drive in his dark gray Nissan Pathfinder took him to town hall meetings in LaBelle, Moore Haven, then Sebring. He had to be back in Washington at 9 a.m. Saturday to argue the case for seating the Florida delegation at the Democratic National Convention, so Florida's U.S. senator had to arrive at the Orlando airport by 8 p.m. Friday to catch a flight to Washington. But U.S. Airways canceled the red-eye, so his aides made hasty phone calls to people he expected to meet at 3:30 p.m. in Sebring City Hall. Could they be there 30 minutes early? Nelson needed to fly from Sebring in a private plane so he could make the 6:15 flight in Orlando. ...more

May 31, 2008

I mean really the best - energy policy for the long-term economic health and security of our country. I realize this is a fantasy, but play along with me for a minute. What would this mythical, totally imaginary, truth-telling candidate say? ...more

May 31, 2008

Consider the game of chicken that plays out every day across Pennsylvania State Highway 441. In Marietta, where the road hugs the Susquehanna River, a Rutter's Farm Store gas station stands on one side, a Sheetz gas station on the other. ...more

May 25, 2008

Road-widening projects that would move traffic faster between the university area and New Tampa are so far in the future that commuters are angry and frustrated. ...more

May 24, 2008

Today, our minds are all taken up with the high price of gasoline and the rapidly rising price of food. Very little is mentioned about the deep concerns of a few months ago relative to Muslims and Islam. Even our president was trying to convince us that not all Muslims were bad, that it was a peaceful religion. This might be a true statement. However, Islam is not a religion or cult. It is a complete system of religious, legal, political and military components. The religious component is the "mask" or "cover" for the other components. When there are sufficient Muslims in a country, agitation for their religious rights begins and this is the start of the "Islamization" of that country. ...more

May 10, 2008

Ralph Jennett of New Port Richey can't find logic of raising taxes on petroleum as a means of making it more plentiful. Oil companies don't control the cost of fuel, the market does, he says. ...more

May 10, 2008

The worst of the credit crisis may have passed, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday, while acknowledging that rising gas prices will blunt the effect of 130 million economic stimulus checks. He ruled out a second stimulus package for now. ...more

May 8, 2008

In a generally ignorant anti-environmentalist screed, your guest columnist, Colin Flaherty, blames environmentalists for problems that are really caused by markets. ...more

May 2, 2008

At the clinic where I went the other day, the nurses told me that I could have only one Medicare charge per day. ...more

February 11, 2008

Two Democrats whose names are likely familiar to voters have plans to challenge U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite for the 5th Congressional District seat. ...more

January 15, 2008