Top Bush administration officials paint a dire picture of recession, layoffs and more foreclosed homes if Congress doesn't quickly pass a proposed $700 billion financial bailout package. ...more

September 24, 2008

"Help, I need somebody!" The opening lyrics of the famous Beatles song may well apply to County Commissioner Jeff Stabins' economic stimulus package, also called HELP. ...more

September 18, 2008

The effort to get a control tower at the Hernando County Airport is in the air. ...more

September 9, 2008

Susan Stanton, the former Largo city manager known as Steven Stanton before a sex change, has mediated a divorce from her wife of 18 years, according to court documents. ...more

August 27, 2008

Susan Stanton, the former Largo city manager known as Steven Stanton before a sex change, has mediated his divorce from his wife of 18 years, according to court documents. ...more

August 26, 2008

The Lake Placid Board of Realtors is sponsoring a Home Buyers' Workshop on Tuesday, Aug. 19 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the Lake Placid campus of South Florida Community College in Room 124. ...more

August 17, 2008

Accused of campaign finance violation, a candidate for judge said Thursday that she had made an honest mistake and fixed the problem after being contacted by a reporter. ...more

August 8, 2008

On July 30 President Bush signed into law the $300 billion housing bill to bail out the mortgage lenders who gave loans to the homebuyers who bought homes they couldn't afford. That just proves that ours is not really a free-market economy. If it was, the government would let the greedy lenders and homebuyers who couldn't afford the loans straighten out their own messes. Instead, we taxpayers foot the bill - once again. ...more

August 1, 2008

Mortgage rates have risen about a half a percentage point over the past five weeks, according to mortgage research firm HSH Associates' latest survey. ...more

July 13, 2008

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's office said today it has filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Financial for engaging in "deceptive and unfair trade practices." The suit says Countrywide, one of the nation's largest mortgage companies, knowingly put Florida borrowers into mortgages they couldn't afford or into loans with rates and penalties that were "misleading." ...more

July 1, 2008