Africans flocked to all-night parties, set off fireworks and hoisted cans of "Senator" beer Tuesday, determined to celebrate a moment in history as Barack Obama was elected the first black American president. ...more

November 5, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - If you enjoy marching bands and want to show some military support, head over to Hanley Road on Saturday morning to catch the 15th annual Veterans Day parade. ...more

November 2, 2008

It's disappointing to see how little muscle Tampa Bay's legislative delegation has in Tallahassee. It's even more disheartening to hear incumbents say why that is. Most often, their answer is simply a shrug. ...more

October 11, 2008

You may want to sit down for this little piece of blockbuster information, but according to "Obsession," a fear-mongering DVD being slipped into your Sunday paper, there are quite a few militant Islamic radicals who are really, really, really annoyed with us. Who knew? ...more

September 25, 2008

CITRUS PARK Members of American Legion Post152 paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks on America seven years ago by gathering along Sheldon Road in front of the post headquarters and waving American flags to passing motorists. ...more

September 11, 2008

"Should I stay or should I go." To quote the band "The Clash," illegal immigrants to Avon Park and its environs must be asking just that question. If they stay here, they risk arrest, deportation, exploitation or worse. If they go back to Mexico, they risk greater poverty, starvation, exploitation even murder by corrupt thugs, drug dealers and cops. Nice choice, eh? I recently witnessed a demonstration against illegal immigration at the intersection of US 27 and SR 64 in Avon Park. Truck drivers were honking their air horns presumably in support of the demonstrators who proudly waved American flags next to a pickup truck with a sign against illegal immigration and for drilling domestic oil. In attendance was the former mayor of Avon Park, a huge enemy of illegal immigration. I don't know him, never met him, but I've heard him speak. Nice to know paranoia is alive and well in America. ...more

September 8, 2008

The Democratic National Convention you see on TV is not the same convention as experienced in the Pepsi Center. ...more

August 28, 2008

After cruising for two weeks at the Olympics, the U.S. was challenged for 40 minutes. ...more

August 25, 2008

In Friday's Highlands Today (Aug. 1) you published a picture of three American flags hanging on a wall of the new Memorial Elementary School. ...more

August 7, 2008

As workers and school staff moved boxes big and small with carts and hand trucks, Memorial Elementary Principal Ruby Handley said the new school looks "fabulous." ...more

August 1, 2008