Receiving a phone call saying a bus has crashed through your business is not how someone wants to start their work day. ...more

February 26, 2009

Deputy Jim Powers circled the house, banging on windows and doors. He was trying to determine if anyone was home after a neighbor called authorities to say the homeowner hadn't picked up his paper from the driveway recently. ...more

January 22, 2009

Hello I'm back; you haven't seen me for about two days, did you miss me? I'm Sarah, Sarah Palin. I've been so busy I never went back to Saturday Night Live because it bombed, just like I did in the election. ...more

December 18, 2008

We're coming up to fall, my favorite time of the year for two reasons: it's football season, and it's the season of opening up the house to enjoy the great weather. I love the way my energy bill goes down as we don't need to use heat or air conditioning this time of the year. Any general tips for improving indoor comfort in the coming months? ...more

September 25, 2008

Picking out a ceiling fan from the array of choices requires some homework. What should you consider before you buy? The July issue of Consumer Reports magazine suggests the following: ...more

July 24, 2008

As inflation continues to climb, it may be small comfort that prices for iPhones, skirts and drapes are falling. ...more

June 13, 2008

A recent letter to the editor describing some inexcusable acts of disrespect to the flag at the Highlands County Art Festival motivated me to reread a recent book titled "Flags of our Fathers," which was written about the raising of our flag during the battle for Iwo Jima, by five Marines and a sailor –– an event which is memorialized by the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington D.C. Iwo Jima is a small island in the Pacific, whose war time importance was its small airstrip, which the military desired to assist in our air attacks against Japan. The military desired it, the Marines took it, took it with a loss of 6,825 Marines killed. ...more

December 10, 2007

Think about this for a second. You're a football coach. Your team is behind 9-7, there are only a handful of ticks on the clock more than one minute and you have a freshman running your offense at quarterback. ...more

September 16, 2007