Near the end of every workweek, 25-year-old Brian Hartman gets to go outside and play with his friends. ...more

November 12, 2009

Deron Mikal, Commander of the Brooksville chapter of Disabled American Veterans, was honored recently at the DAV National Convention in Denver. ...more

October 4, 2009

I can't understand the thinking of our leaders: federal, state, county, city or others. When times are so hard with people out of work, striving to try and feed their families and keeping a roof over their heads and trying to pay their bills, what happens? The state wants to raise the price of car tags, title transfers and driver's licenses. ...more

July 16, 2009

How can anyone read Terry Collins' letter and not laugh out loud? To blame a president, left with a mess like he was, to turn it around in four and a half months is beyond me. Everything Mr. Collins complains about happened while his "boys," G. Worthless and The Grim Reaper (Cheney), were in office. Oh, doesn't the president have veto power over any bills that cross his desk? Thought so. ...more

June 11, 2009

As older residents watch their pensions shrink during the recession, some might be looking for work. ...more

May 16, 2009

It was with the utmost shock and disappointment that my husband and I read in the newspaper that Sen. JD Alexander proposed cutting state employees salaries by 5 percent due to the lack of state funds. State employees in Florida are already the lowest paid government employees. They have also been deprived of cost-of-living increases for over three years. ...more

March 31, 2009

With state and local budgets in fiscal free-fall, many of Florida's cities are looking at their revenue and expenses to judge how to improve their fiscal responsibility. But when we look at the long-term picture for cities, one issue in particular leaps out as one that could burden city taxpayers terribly in the years ahead. ...more

March 22, 2009

A number of editorials in major and local newspapers repeat the mantra that the collective "we" caused many of the crises facing us today; that the collective "we" allowed our leaders to be corrupt; that "we" kept putting the same corrupt elected officials in government; that the collective "we" were spend thrifts, using credit cards to buy now and pay later, letting the bills pile up. And what about the credit card corporations? ...more

January 25, 2009

The safety net is almost gone, the nest egg is cracking. Many Americans have recently found themselves changing retirement plans after losing a substantial amount of home equity as the housing market and the overall U.S. economy struggle. These folks face years of living on fixed incomes from pensions, 401(k)s or IRAs, and Social Security, but don't have the time to recover their losses. ...more

January 11, 2009

Priorities Upside Down During my 12-year tenure as a state legislator in New Hampshire, I had the responsibility at one point to serve as chairman of the House Committee on State Institutions in order to oversee the operation and standards of our Youth Development Center (YDC) along with other state facilities. Governmental overview of state institutions is always needed, although experience shows that it is seldom productive. ...more

January 7, 2009