Close readers of The Pasco Tribune are well aware that This Space rarely flinches from wrestling with the hot-button issues of the day, from ill-spent tax dollars to land-use planning to offshore prospecting for oil and natural gas to restoring the Flapjack Festival, to name a mere handful. ...more

November 13, 2009

Editor's note: This is the first of Highlands Today's endorsements for the upcoming election. The Highlands Today Editorial Board interviews candidates and then each board member votes for his or her choice. The candidate with the most votes is endorsed. ...more

October 8, 2008

One of my nieces, Janet, is extraordinarily bright, lucid, outspoken and an irrational, emotional liberal/socialist. ...more

September 2, 2008

Democrats shaped a set of principles Saturday that commits the party to guaranteed health care for all, heading off a potentially divisive debate and edging the party closer to the position of Barack Obama's defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton. ...more

August 10, 2008

It shouldn't surprise anyone that voter registration in Highlands County is at an all-time high. There is a lot of unrest throughout the country, including our own county. We should take voter interest as a good sign. ...more

July 16, 2008

Sports radio personality Steve Duemig was arrested early Sunday on a drunken driving charge. ...more

June 17, 2008

a shiny, silver credit card with the activation sticker attached. ...more

June 8, 2008

To pay or not to pay, that is the question. Every year, this is one of the many hot-button issues that arise when the upcoming grandeur of college football slowly approaches: Should student-athletes be compensated for their efforts on the field? ...more

May 3, 2008

With illegal immigration and undocumented workers being among the hot-button issues of the day, there's no telling when the government might decide it's time for a crackdown. Whether a business owner thinks "illegals" are that big of a problem, no business owner wants it to become their problem. "This is one of the issues they're talking about in Congress," a local business law attorney, Debora Ann Diaz, said. "Maybe we don't have an illegal alien problem, maybe we just need to enforce what we have in existence." ...more

February 2, 2008

John Lipscomb, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Southwest Florida, has asked for a release from his vows from his church's presiding bishop and will become a member of the Roman Catholic Church. ...more

November 22, 2007