Having dined at Bern's, toured Ybor City and soaked in all the excitement of Super Bowl XLIII, the "Today" show staff wrapped up a five-day visit with a telecast from the fourth floor patio of The News Center this morning. ...more

February 3, 2009

Having dined at Bern's, toured Ybor City and soaked in all the excitement of Super Bowl XLIII, the "Today" show staffers wrapped up a five-day visit with a final telecast from the fourth floor patio of The News Center this morning. ...more

February 2, 2009

It's great that our county commissioners will be discussing ways to stimulate the local economy. As I look around my neighborhood and as I drive around Sebring, I see many "For Sale" signs in front of residential properties. Many of these signs are turning into "For Rent" signs as builders, Realtors and private sellers know very well that residential property is not selling. The idea of suspending impact fees and building permit fees seems absurd in today's market. Construction trades are experiencing a longer period of inactivity because builders of spec homes chose to continue building long after it was clear to those of us without crystal balls that sales and prices were dropping. How about discussing ways to attract industry to this area or to rebuild infrastructure where needed? About the last thing we need is building more residential property to further drive prices down when they don't sell. ...more

February 24, 2008

SEBRING — In 2005, when Tim Mahoney entered the 16th District congressional race against Mark Foley, political prognosticators gave him no chance to win. As late as Sept. 12, 2006, even a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee poll had Mahoney trailing Foley 35 to 48 percent. But on Sept. 29, Foley resigned after a Web site revealed the congressman had been sending salacious e-mails to teenaged House pages. ...more

December 27, 2007