In an effort to provide work for the legal citizens of Highlands County and prevent our tax dollars from being sent to a foreign county by illegal aliens, I have proposed the following to the county commission: ...more

December 18, 2008

To conduct the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau will hire hundreds of thousands of census takers over the next two years, including several hundred in a region that includes Highlands County. ...more

December 14, 2008

A man arrested Tuesday morning on petty theft and drug possession charges kicked out the rear window of a deputy's patrol car on the way to Orient Road Jail and escaped for a brief time, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit. ...more

December 9, 2008

The U.S. Census Bureau is gearing up for the 2010 Census and it needs help to ensure everyone is counted. ...more

November 30, 2008

At the Green Shift Music and Comics store in Tampa, they sell guitars and funny books. But something not so amusing happened there recently. ...more

November 3, 2008

When patients register at Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, they might be surprised to find the process includes a palm reading. ...more

November 1, 2008

More than 200 Highlands County taxpayers are owed money by the IRS. The IRS is looking for 203 county residents who have yet to receive a refund check. The average citizen due a refund is missing $650, or $131,983 countywide. ...more

October 25, 2008

The Internal Revenue Service says overdue economic stimulus checks will soon be mailed to about a quarter of a million married couples who had been denied the money because a spouse's married name and Social Security number didn't match. ...more

October 19, 2008

Bay area elections supervisors are laying plans to deal with what they fear could be hundreds of people who have problems voting Nov. 4 because of the state's "No Match, No Vote" law. ...more

October 10, 2008

Some of the Tampa area's largest hospitals are starting to modernize one of the most meaningful and important milestones in a baby's life: getting a birth certificate. ...more

October 9, 2008