Many young, naïve and politically re-educated youth, struggling poor and the over indulged credit abusers believe they are entitled to an upgraded lifestyle. ...more

February 27, 2009

Companies that took billion-dollar taxpayer bailouts have pulled back from corporate trips perceived as extravagant. Now the withdrawal is being felt in the Bay area. ...more

February 12, 2009

I have been listening to conservative talkers for some time and I am a little disappointed. It is not the talk the talk, but the walk the walk that is insufficient. A while back I wrote to Judge Bork and asked this question, "Where in our Constitution does it give the government the right to take from one and give to another who does nothing to earn it?" The answer was "you have to take it to court." ...more

February 12, 2009

Companies that took billion-dollar taxpayer bailouts have pulled back from corporate trips perceived as extravagant. Now the withdrawal is being felt in Tampa Bay. ...more

February 11, 2009

So it's finally time to put 2008 to rest. This was not an easy year by any stretch of the imagination. The economy is limping into 2009 barely hanging on; many people have lost their jobs; area businesses have folded; foreclosures are coming in record numbers. ...more

December 31, 2008

The nastier this recession gets, the more people will talk about the discrediting of markets and the failure of deregulation. So the next time the Dow dives off a cliff, splash your face with ice water and remember two things: This end-of-capitalism talk is bunk, and it distracts us from the debate we should be having. ...more

December 5, 2008

11:55 a.m.: I'm No. 6 in line at Kate Jackson Community Center in Hyde Park. There are two precincts housed here. I vote at 129. ...more

November 4, 2008

An Oct. 26 letter to the editor by Jim Mastro omits one very important factor; his dissertation is theoretical and has no substance in our realistic society with the greed mentality recently displayed over the last eight years. ...more

November 4, 2008

The Spring Hill Fire Rescue District is at it again: "Board Ignores Salary Freeze." This shows you how they operate. ...more

October 26, 2008

One hundred and sixty-five years ago, a Scottish businessman set out his plans for a newspaper. James Wilson's starting point was "a melancholy reflection": "while wealth and capital have been rapidly increasing" and science and art "working the most surprising miracles," all classes of people were marked "by characters of uncertainty and insecurity." ...more

October 25, 2008