The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending about $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education. ...more

October 26, 2009

A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) a comically cynical, pitchfork-wielding Congress, (b) a hopelessly understaffed, stumbling Obama administration and (c) $165 million. ...more

March 24, 2009

The meltdown of global financial markets slashed the ranks of the world's billionaires by 30 percent in 2008, Forbes magazine reports in its annual tally of the planet's richest people. ...more

March 14, 2009

As Jerry Seinfeld took the Mahaffey Theater stage Thursday night, he told the sold-out audience that he was happy to be in St. Petersburg, "A tiny city without one curb. Don't you guys like curbs?" ...more

February 27, 2009

Between illegals and America's guest worker programs we may be looking at 20 million jobs, jobs held by the many guest workers and illegals. I would ask that the government look at all programs that bring foreign employees to our shores. The E-Verify program, if used, could ferret out most all of the illegal workers, which I suspect could be close to 20 million jobs that are lost to our citizens. This could re-employ millions of American laid-off workers. Many American industries refuse to hire American workers, claiming that they are "over educated for the job." Many engineers in American industry were laid off in the early 1980s by the aircraft and auto industries, etc. They were replaced with foreign engineers from India, China and nations of low wages. ...more

February 7, 2009

The new executive director of the Highlands County Economic Development Commission told the EDC board of directors that bringing high-paying jobs to the county is a "real high priority." ...more

January 18, 2009

Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time. ...more

January 7, 2009

Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering - a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories. ...more

December 26, 2008

It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir. ...more

November 8, 2008