It's a short walk from Lisa Couture's Meadow Pointe home to her children's school, Double Branch Elementary. In an ideal world, the half-mile trip would take 15 minutes. But for Couture, who's blind, the situation's not ideal. After counting driveways and groping through the gate of her subdivision, Couture faces a potentially fatal obstacle on her way to the school: Meadow Pointe Boulevard. ...more

January 4, 2010

It's a short walk from Lisa Couture's Meadow Pointe home to her children's school, Double Branch Elementary. ...more

January 3, 2010

Irish Spring Body Wash Cool Relief Scrub Available at drug and discount stores and online at www.drugstore.com; $5.49 for a 15-ounce bottle ...more

September 26, 2009

Finally our local government is making common-sense decisions. The Tampa Sports Authority made a decision not to give the front-runner for the vacant executive director post a $10,000 stipend to help pay his mortgages. This man is already making a six-figure income and wanted help from the taxpayer. Two members of the three-member executive committee voted to not give him this money. To them I say well done. ...more

July 27, 2009

The opposing points of view expressed by writers Amity Shlaes and Karl Frisch regarding the effectiveness of FDR's New Deal policies (Views, Feb. 15) resulted in a textbook conservative vs. liberal comparison on the debate of issues in 2009 American politics. ...more

February 18, 2009

This stimulus package is the biggest farce in the history of the world, and Americans who cannot see through the deception are brain dead. ...more

February 11, 2009

Address of Business: 4212 Dunn Ave., Sebring Telephone number: ...more

January 4, 2009

One senses that your coverage of campaign 2008 was strategically designed to educate not sway the public. And you carried out that strategy wonderfully. ...more

November 6, 2008

Settling For Mediocrity Today it will be 232 years since our forefathers declared independence from England and began what we now call America. ...more

July 4, 2008

Chris Colwill admits he might have a slight advantage over his competition at this week's U.S. Olympic Diving Trials in Indianapolis. The odd thing is, most people would call his "edge" a physical challenge. ...more

June 19, 2008