The biggest challenge facing America's struggling newspaper industry may not be the high cost of newsprint or lost ad revenue, but ignorance stoked by drive-by punditry. ...more

March 20, 2009

Printed edition will publish Wednesday through Sunday. ...more

January 6, 2009

When I was a little girl, I learned the ailments for which my mother considered milk of magnesia a cure. I kept those aches to myself because the cure was surely worse. I was greatly impressed recently to learn that two tablespoons of the nasty-tasting stuff mixed with a quart of club soda can be used to preserve newsprint. ...more

December 7, 2008

A major drop in prices for recyclable materials has forced a local scrap yard and the Highlands County Recycling Department to store much of what it takes in. ...more

December 5, 2008

For the past two weeks I have been sitting on the corner of Interlake Boulevard, in Lake Placid with my choices for elected officials. As many know I sat there for a lot of hours. ...more

November 5, 2008

The rich and famous, it seems, split up differently than the rest of us. Christie Brinkley loaded up the kids in the family private jet and flew off to Colorado in search of comfort after discovering her husband was having an affair with an 18-year-old and spending some of the family fortune on Internet porn. ...more

July 9, 2008

What started out earlier in the week as a smoke signal has turned into one of the hottest rumors burning up cyberspace and newsprint across North America. ...more

February 24, 2008

Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina's military dictatorship - tortured, executed and made to "disappear" in the so-called Dirty War against dissent - are gaining new voice through poetry. ...more

December 28, 2007

Safety Harbor commissioners can now breath a sigh of relief each time they – and other city residents – recycle after reaching an agreement on processing fees with Clearwater. ...more

October 27, 2007

Your Aunt Mary, God rest her soul, was a prolific collector. Other family members shake their heads over how you saved her boxes of old newspaper clippings. ...more

September 16, 2007