Back-to-school shopping will be a bleak experience this year for Spring Hill resident Carol Teal. ...more

August 5, 2008

Seek alternative options for back-to-school supplies. ...more

August 5, 2008

What's rising faster than gas prices this summer? Americans' worries about them. ...more

July 24, 2008

Making Choice Clearer When General Wesley Clark decided that John McCain's war record was not relevant to his candidacy for president, it made me consider McCain's sacrifice. ...more

July 7, 2008

CLEARWATER - Sam, a rust-colored boxer-pit bull mix, sniffs around the exercise yard, keeping his distance. ...more

July 5, 2008

At the Corner Pub on Cincinnati's west side, bartender Melissa Metz can count the cost of the economic hangover in the stack of bills she has at the end of a shift. ...more

June 24, 2008

Next week, a group of Pasco government, business and nonprofit leaders are slated to meet, at the invitation of state Sen. Mike Fasano. The New Port Richey Republican wants to talk about the homeless problem in the county. According to Fasano, the county could get its hands on $1 million in grant money - $850,000 from the federal government and $150,000 from that state - if it had a plan for combating homelessness. ...more

June 18, 2008

Has Highlands County's economic woes hit bottom and started slowly creeping up? Do we even dare say such things out loud in fear that there will be some kind of jinx? It's hard to say on both counts, but a few smart people believe we might have hit bottom and that we have no where to go but up. We certainly hope that's true. A lot of houses are on the market these days and it seems like in the last month or so, some of them are being sold. That probably has to do with prices falling enough that buyers don't want to miss a good thing, but it's still a good sign. The first sign of an improving economy will be some of those "For Sale" signs being topped off with "Sold" signs. ...more

May 19, 2008

SEBRING — U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, a self described "blue dog Democrat," called the federal stimulus checks only the first of four steps needed to boost the economy out of the recession. "The president is still having trouble saying 'the R-word,'" Mahoney told about 60 people at Monday morning's meeting of the Highlands County Homeowners Association. ...more

May 12, 2008

Broken sewage pipes and areas flooded with contaminated water. ...more

May 7, 2008