Pete Bihorel, 57, Lutz Height: 5-foot-9 ...more

May 30, 2008

The My Safe Florida Home program gives you options, but that doesn't mean they're good ones. In the end, you are responsible. ...more

May 19, 2008

Dear Abby: I am a 38-year-old woman. My fiance of five years, "Troy," and I live together and are the parents of a 5-month-old baby girl. ...more

May 11, 2008

It doesn't do much good to complain about a job like mine. Example: Person With Normal Job: What a day! A client canceled a major contract, the mail room lost some essential documents and now I'm going to have to work all weekend! ...more

May 8, 2008

SEBRING — As the Sebring football team filed out of the locker room and toward the field for Thursday's spring practice, they couldn't help but notice a familiar sight. ...more

May 2, 2008

I'm sure by now everybody has seen the beating of the Polk County teenage girl on TV or read about it in the newspaper. What is underlying this matter is the blatant disrespect and lack of consequences these and other young people have today in this society. It has to start with the parents and is shared with the school system right up to and including the liberal justice system. ...more

April 10, 2008

Our county government is a mess. They change committees to suit their agenda. If the results are not to their paradigm, they change the rules or committees. Example, they first decided that a new "CEO" a.k.a. county administrator, should be hired after his or her staff has been hired. What a colossal error. I can only think of one reason for this. They wanted to be sure that their special people were promoted to these higher-paying jobs. But when the committee sent the second selection of the new directors' jobs, they were not all that happy. So they just changed the rules and the next ones will be a group of finalists. ...more

February 20, 2008

In response to Janet Allwood's letter concerning misuse of county money and equipment, I submit the following: No, Janet, I have not had the desire to know the specifics of reputed pornography on county computers. I was subjected to much more details in the Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal than I would have preferred. I just find it strange that a public servant in the highest office in America was found guilty of sexual misconduct during government paid time and on government owned property, was guilty of perjury before all of the nation yet remained in his publicly paid job. ...more

February 10, 2008

Patrick Johnson ...more

February 7, 2008

Andre Roy has been playing some of his best hockey in recent weeks. So it was a tad surprising Tuesday morning to see that Roy was not in the lineup for Tuesday night's game against St. Louis. ...more

February 6, 2008