The great benefit of this present financial deficit in education is that it provides us with the opportunity to diligently evaluate everything we are presently spending taxpayer money on. Little things add up. Presently, if we added up all the perfectly good fruit that our children are now throwing in the trash, I wonder just how much that would add up to, $200 a day per school. ...more

February 4, 2009

As a tax-paying customer, I have a hard time with all the palm trees that are planted at every intersection around the state. ...more

January 15, 2009

Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom announced Monday that he will give up the $110,000 Northwest Florida State College job he took the day he was sworn in as speaker. ...more

January 6, 2009

Every parent, grandparent and every adult should be up in arms at our county for the planned cuts in the amount of teachers for our middle and high schools. ...more

December 27, 2008

It's very disturbing when you're always reading about the common man-woman losing their jobs. What makes it worse, you read about the government bailing all these big companies out of their financial problems. Where is the government for the real workers? They should be considered before the big companies. It isn't the common workers' fault the bosses miss-managed funds and only looked out for themselves. ...more

December 27, 2008

What with the gloomy status of education in the state of Florida, it is news worthy to report that Florida is No. 1 in nationally certified teachers. Highlands County has about 40 of them. ...more

December 14, 2008

By mid-December, Hillsborough County school leaders will have to cut from the budget $26 million that they already expected to lose. ...more

November 26, 2008

By the end of the summer, the local unemployment rate reached the highest point in nearly 16 years. ...more

November 22, 2008

Florida's unemployment rate jumped to 7 percent in October, the highest rate since December 1993, according to state figures released today. The state's jobless rate rose from 6.6 percent in September, according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation. The rate was 4.3 percent in October 2007. Florida continued to shed jobs, losing 156,200 nonagricultural jobs between October 2007 and last month, for a job-growth rate of minus 1.9 percent. ...more

November 21, 2008

Recession or no recession, a new poll by Quinnipiac University suggests that most Floridians feel they're in good shape financially. ...more

November 20, 2008