DUNEDIN -- The latest attempt by the city to regulate amplified music in and around the downtown entertainment district will be debated Wednesday night by the Local Planning Agency. ...more

July 7, 2008

Listening to the back and forth this week about oil drilling and energy prices, you have to wonder whether there's anyone in Washington who understands what leadership is about. ...more

June 21, 2008

The economy remained "generally weak" heading into summer as rising costs for energy and food pounded consumers and forced some companies to push their own prices higher. ...more

June 12, 2008

SEBRING — Tampa-Sickles' Kenny Wilson raced in from deep center field, hot on the trail of a shallow fly ball off the bat of Winter Haven's Markus Brisker. Just before the extra-base hit met the ground, Wilson made a late dive and a crowd-pleasing snag. As the East team made its way from the dugout to the outfield, Wesley Freeman of Winter Haven-All Saints had some words of consolation for Brisker and the rest of his teammates. "That's why we're all-stars, boys," smiled the All-Saints senior. ...more

May 24, 2008

A Bad Comparison Regarding "Bush Remarks Rile Obama" (Nation/World, May 16): Is there anyone left in this country who believes that G.W. Bush has any credibility? If Bush wants to make an analogy, it should not be between Barack Obama and appeasement before World War II, but rather between what he has done to the United States of America and what was done to Germany by its leaders before and during the war. ...more

May 20, 2008

Unless today's Indiana and North Carolina primaries produce a surprising upset, the Hillary Rodham Clinton-Barack Obama stalemate will continue, ultimately to be decided by superdelegates. ...more

May 6, 2008

In reviewing our concern about WMDs, particularly nukes in the hands first of Saddam and now Iran, the thing that is principally overlooked is the bellicose posture between these two countries for the last decade. Under Saddam, Iraq decided to go to war against Iran, largely with U.S. help and encouragement. Although the Israelis had taken out Iraq's nuclear capabilities with a surgical air strike in 1981, both Iran and Iraq felt the need to menace each other with the potential threat of nuclear weaponry. ...more

February 17, 2008

State title hopefuls Shaanan Spiegel of Sebring and Avon Park junior James Bland were ousted from the winner's bracket with a pair of losses on Friday night during the evening session at the Class 1A state wrestling tournament at the Lakeland Center. ...more

February 16, 2008

Dozens of firefighters filled the historic Pasco County Courthouse at Tuesday's county commission meeting to draw attention to the fact that they still don't have a contract with county officials. ...more

February 16, 2008

Congress, facing the prospect of an election-year recession, passed an emergency plan Thursday that rushes rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers and $300 checks to disabled veterans, the elderly and other low-income people. President Bush indicated he would sign the measure. ...more

February 8, 2008