The Tampa Bay Buccaneers haven't done a lot right this season, as we know so well. This Sunday was going to provide a break from all that, though, with the "Throwback" game against the Packers - complete with a return to the hideous (yet lovable) Creamsicle uniforms and the winking pirate on the helmets. ...more

November 5, 2009

I am sure there are many righteous souls who are paying for God to send rain, which we so desperately need. The governor of Georgia asked his citizens to pray for rain a few years ago, and the next day the rains came. ...more

May 10, 2009

Overwhelmed with bad loans and foreclosed homes, lenders are slashing away at prices. ...more

April 26, 2009

Please sit down while reading this. We have identified a promising sign in our local economy. Everyone's been looking for something positive and although it's small right now, it's something to make us feel good about, and we all desperately need that these days. ...more

February 27, 2009

Families are losing bus service, middle school students are losing sleep and teachers are losing jobs as Florida's student population sinks with the economy. ...more

January 8, 2009

College football's biggest night of the season has arrived, and we can prove it. There will be fireworks. ...more

January 8, 2009

The skyrocketing foreclosure rates that have been making national news for months and became a major issue in the presidential campaigns also hit Highlands County in 2008. ...more

December 31, 2008

Mortgage interest rates are at a 58-year low, and according to Fifth Third Bank, homeowners are applying for new loans at near-record levels. ...more

December 22, 2008

Residents of a Tampa neighborhood are flocking together to try and rescue a macaw that has flown the coop. ...more

December 6, 2008

"We get what we pay for when using outdated or unfair pay scales" – your headline for this column. Are you suggesting that all the people that were hired knowing what the pay scales were are inferior employees? Our administrators, sheriff, public works administrators are all inferior because they accepted the pay scales offered to them? When someone applies for a position, the pay scales are presented to them. If they feel it is not enough, then they should seek employment elsewhere. ...more

November 25, 2008