Gov. Charlie Crist's prepared remarks to the Florida Legislature, as released by the governor's office: ...more

March 3, 2009

Investors' despair about financial companies and the recession has brought the Dow Jones industrial average to another unwanted milestone: its first drop below 7,000 in more than 11 years. ...more

March 3, 2009

While 52 percent of this nation's voters proved to be "Kool Aid" drinkers last November, Wall Street obviously refuses to be fooled by the false hope, hollow promises and inane rhetoric of the new president's sad State of the Union address this past week. President Obama, his empty-suit, ethics-bereft cabinet and the most liberal, left-wing Congress in the history of the Republic, have managed to decimate both the S&P and Dow Jones indices by more than 27 percent since their election last fall. ...more

March 1, 2009

Patti Constantino-Martin of Spring Hill wants an end to bailouts and the government to seize the assets of the executives of failed financial institutions. ...more

February 25, 2009

Wall Street has turned the clock back to 1997. Investors unable to extinguish their worries about a recession that has no end in sight dumped stocks again Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 251 points to its lowest close since Oct. 28, 1997, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index logged its lowest finish since April 11, 1997. All the major indexes slid more than 3 percent. The Dow is just over 100 points from 7,000. ...more

February 24, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday insisted it's not trying to take over two ailing financial institutions, even as stocks tumbled again. ...more

February 22, 2009

There have been several articles in the Highlands Today regarding subject matter on the Spring Lake Golf Course. The last one of Feb. 3 was the best article written to date. ...more

February 19, 2009

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the biggest U.S. tire maker, plans to cut 5,000 jobs this year after posting a fourth-quarter loss of $330 million and a 21 percent decline in sales. ...more

February 18, 2009

Here are some interesting facts from the U.S. Small Business Administration: Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, employ half of all private-sector employees, pay nearly 45 percent of total private payroll nationwide and have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the past decade. ...more

February 18, 2009

As many homeowners face foreclosure, they are frequently finding that their original lender is not the mortgagee seeking to foreclose. In many cases, homeowners are being sued by banks acting as trustees for something called a "pooling agreement." The trustee frequently is represented by a law firm that is handling foreclosures in bulk quantity; and it may be impossible to get an attorney speak with you in an attempt to resolve the matter. What can the homeowner do? ...more

February 13, 2009