Regarding "401(k) Rule Finally Reveals Hidden Fees" (Our Opinion, July 24): The new rule proposed by the Department of Labor that investors be told how much they are being charged for management of their assets in 401(k)s is definitely a move in the right direction. Similar transparency of management and administrative fees being charged investors by all mutual funds and financial managers of other peoples' money needs to happen. It is unacceptable to me as it should be to all investors that someone can have their hands in my wallet, help themselves to my money and not have to tell me how much they are taking and when they took it! ...more

July 27, 2008

A local civic activist will host a prayer vigil Sunday at the Avon Park Community Center to commemorate the second anniversary of a vote on a controversial ordinance that would have denied business licenses from the city to anyone that "aid and abets" illegal immigrants anywhere in the country. ...more

July 17, 2008

Some people enjoy the details in managing money: Shopping for the best interest rates. Balancing checkbooks to the penny. ...more

January 27, 2008

Our association is having new amended documents and wants to charge everyone $25 for a copy. From what I have read in your article, the first copy must be free but they can charge for a second copy. Is this true? If so, will you e-mail me something I can show the board president in order to stop him from charging this cost? ...more

December 8, 2007

It still will be Sunday before the Bucs know for sure whether quarterback Jeff Garcia can play against the Saints, but the best sign yet that he will came Friday when he returned to practice. ...more

December 1, 2007

SEBRING — Appearances aren't everything. Only after they were told, did some judges realize that a trumpeter in the Sebring High School Marching Band was blind. Junior Cody Breen marches and plays in formation so well that many in the audience never know he's been completely blind since birth. A guide shadows Breen on the field and corrects the trumpeter if he takes a wrong turn. "If I'm off a little bit, they'll put me in the right direction," said Breen. "I'm just trying to keep up with everybody else. The fun part is, I like surprises." ...more

November 27, 2007

Most of the online mapping sites can't find my home address. Is there a company I can contact to fix this? ...more

October 22, 2007