The Spring Lake Improvement District Board of Supervisors are again violating their oaths of office and are not doing the will of the people. They are now asking the state Legislature for broad new powers that through assessment powers would drive many senior homeowners into foreclosure. These are trying times for many seniors who are on fixed incomes. We are nationwide in the greatest financial crunch that America has ever seen. ...more

November 11, 2009

The current health care bill presented by Nancy Pelosi is quite a beast in itself, almost 2,000 pages. ...more

November 5, 2009

With regards to Keith Bricklemyer's (a land use attorney) comments in "Wetlands Division A Redundancy" (Views, March 21): It was Shakespeare who once wrote those immortal words, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." Has anyone ever noticed the overwhelming majority of those who write in protest about the Environmental Protection Commission are developers, land use attorneys, and those individuals with large parcels of land that just happen to be predominately composed of wetlands, not uplands? ...more

March 26, 2009

Last Monday I attended a meeting of the Highlands County Homeowners Association. As usual, Jack Richie and his fellow officers put together an informative and entertaining two hours. Invited to speak were Jeff Carlson, Ron Grimming, Guy Maxcy and Zane Thomas, all candidates for various elected positions in the county. ...more

September 14, 2008

four months after he could have shown that the future leader of the free world doesn't take instructions from some puffed-up pipsqueak party bureaucrat about where he can go, who he can speak to and when - the presidential candidate most of America wants to tap a keg with says he's ready to rally the Florida faithful. ...more

May 20, 2008

Independents Shut Out Regarding "Drawing The Line On Redistricting" (Commentary, Jan 6): ...more

January 12, 2008

I remember participating on a Primary Care Committee that met in Tallahassee. At that time, Hillary Clinton was pushing her health care proposals through community forums around the country. I naively thought the United States would finally get universal health care. ...more

October 7, 2007

President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Russia's prime minister on Wednesday and nominated Viktor Zubkov, the low-profile chief of a financial crimes agency, to assume the post. ...more

September 13, 2007