SARASOTA COUNTY — When you live to be Sara "Susan" Harrison's age, the first hundred candles get dropped from the birthday cake. ...more

December 27, 2007

The traditional Christmas get-together at grandma's house was put on hold Monday morning by a devastating fire. ...more

December 24, 2007

Hazel and Tom Martin reached their 75th birthdays this year - Hazel on Sept. 8 and Tom on Dec. 5. ...more

December 17, 2007

When was the last time the U.S. Congress and any president passed major laws that truly helped the American people? It wasn't tax cuts for wealthy people, nor was it the prescription drug law that was a boon to pharmaceutical companies who bought, paid for and even wrote the legislation. No, not much has happened since the Civil Rights movement that was fundamentally right for the people. ...more

December 6, 2007

It would be nice if the president could read this, to let him know about my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren. Why is there not going to be any money for them to go to the hospital when they get sick? All because of the president. They all have theirs up in Washington, D.C. If they have free insurance, then why can't my grandchildren and great- grandchildren have it, too? Or maybe it's because their dad and mom don't not make the money like they do in the Senate. The ones in the Senate can give themselves a $4,000 raise whenever they want. Maybe if you did not give yourselves raises in there, then you would be able to help us. That is what you are there for. I was doing good until you took my pension away from me. I am a disabled Korean Veteran, or did you forget about the ones who died for you at the time? Look what you did for all of us who went over there and came home; now there isn't any health insurance for our grandchildren, and no jobs for us. They are all overseas now. I need help! ...more

October 9, 2007

Few Pay The Price One of the most striking realities about the war in Iraq is just how little difference it makes in most of our lives back home. My parents remember the sacrifices everyone made during World War II, from rationing gasoline to women going without nylon hosiery. ...more

September 16, 2007