Flying high above a treacherous stretch of the Himalayan Mountains during World War II, Ken Prescher remembers cockpit temperatures dipping to minus 30 degrees - or worse. ...more

November 11, 2009

How does this recession compare with the Great Depression? We've got it much easier. But there are enough similarities to learn from looking back. ...more

October 26, 2009

How does this recession compare with the Great Depression? We've got it much easier. But there are enough similarities to learn from looking back. ...more

October 26, 2009

Your eyes will not be playing tricks on you if you think you see former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt walking around City Hall in early April. ...more

March 28, 2009

I own an electric clock with a figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at a ship's wheel that is inscribed on the base "At the Wheel for a New Deal." I inherited it from my father. It no longer works. What is it worth? ...more

March 1, 2009

In a measure of how quickly its options are shrinking, the United States is about to embrace an economic theory that widely was thought to have been discredited for most of the last generation: the idea that great bursts of deficit-funded government expenditure can jolt an economy back to growth. ...more

February 9, 2009

In 1933, as today, a new president stepped into the White House, vowing change and decisive action at a time when a banking crisis posed a grave threat to the nation's economy. ...more

February 9, 2009

In the dark days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, America needed a hero. ...more

December 23, 2008

Help Teens In Need For Christmas Our program believes in fulfilling teens in Hernando County "deemed in need" by referring agencies. ...more

December 20, 2008

Escorting her granddaughters, 3-year-old Madi and 6-year-old Tori Cornell, around Highlands Hammock State Park on Saturday, Pam Fafeila summed up what drew thousands of people to the park's 23rd annual Civilian Conservation Corps Festival. ...more

November 2, 2008