The last time I checked, the percentage of Floridians looking for work was scary, as was the growing number who either had given up looking or were making do with part-time jobs. At the same time rising insurance costs - or even the ability of Floridians to get insurance of any kind - was daunting. ...more

February 28, 2010

Twitter's founder says the Dalai Lama laughed at the thought of using the social networking service. But the Tibetan spiritual leader now has an official Twitter site — and more than 68,000 followers. ...more

February 23, 2010

Congratulations to the far right's propaganda machine, the world's most powerful, for its immensely successful campaign to transfer the blame for the previous eight years to the Democrats in 2010. It summarily dismissed its culpability of instigating the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and transferred it to 2010. However, the blame for the recent election in Massachusetts can be laid at the feet of Democrats, mainly Senators Lieberman and Dodd of Connecticut, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Lambreiu of Los Angeles; even Reid of Nevada (although he has performed remarkably as the Senate leader.) Their greedy grasps for billions in their states prolonged the debate on health care at least six months, which led up to Senator Brown. ...more

February 14, 2010

With a health care system in turmoil, public schools facing high dropout rates, a country at war, a nation divided over illegal immigration and an economic crisis resulting in foreclosures and job losses, Tom Brokaw went on a yearlong journey through the heartland of America. ...more

January 17, 2010

President Barack Obama is weighing a levy on Washington-rescued banks to help recover shortfalls in a $700 billion bailout fund and to help balance a budget that is looking increasingly grim amid an ongoing economic crisis. ...more

January 11, 2010

Highlands County's teen birth rates have remained unchanged but the state's have fallen, pushing the county once again into the top 10 with the highest per capita births to mothers under 18. ...more

January 7, 2010

Money magazine's Web site has named Hernando County as one of the top 25 counties in the nation for job growth during the last eight years. ...more

December 25, 2009

County commissioner calls magazine article 'absurd.' ...more

December 24, 2009

A furlough is a furlough, regardless of whether a county department derives revenue from property taxes or user fees. ...more

December 20, 2009

The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other. ...more

December 19, 2009