Well, there can be no further doubt in anyone's mind regarding the virulent hatred that this administration has for our country. All of the stupid things that President Barack Obama has done since elected pale in comparison to the evil that Attorney General Eric Holder is about to perform. ...more

November 19, 2009

Discussions about creating political partiesother than Republican and Democrat - are growing louder and more widespread. Most of the chatter focuses on having three or four parties. The way I see it, we need at least eight. ...more

November 14, 2009

Supervisor of Elections Annie Williams said she is going to ask county commissioners at an upcoming meeting for more money to "fulfill the requirements of this office." ...more

October 30, 2009

Russell and Gail Kruetzman of Thonotosassa stopped by the Sun City Center Community Information Center, which is becoming one hopping place. They sat down with volunteer Ann Marie Leblanc to learn all they could about the community before taking a walking tour. ...more

February 18, 2009

Typically, only those who attend rock or country music concerts wear T-shirts like those worn by dozens of Barack Obama county voters on Election Day Tuesday. ...more

November 5, 2008

Unintended Consequences To all who read Sherry and Walt Searle's letter about Hernando County. ...more

September 20, 2008

Election Can't Come Soon Enough I wonder why Cheney (he's the real president, right?) sent in uniformed troops to Georgia with supplies, when our service people are already stretched thin, with two wars, plus National Guard people helping out. ...more

August 16, 2008

Congratulations Congressman Mahoney, you finally remembered that Highlands County is your district. Of course, when you ran two years ago you claimed that you had a ranch in Venus, even though I am told, the mail that was addressed to Venus was returned to sender. It did not matter much, however, since you sold that property shortly after you were elected. ...more

July 10, 2008

In her response to my Jan. 5 letter, Tarpon Springs Mayor Beverly Billiris once again demonstrated the arrogance of a typical politician, says Michael Mattia. ...more

February 9, 2008

Last week I introduced my readers to what I referred to as "ring rage" that I defined as "how one feels when that little tab on the top of a can separates from the top before the top separates from the can and it takes a pair of pliers to get the top off and juice is spilled all over you in the process." Rage is violent and uncontrollable anger. It goes beyond "What's bothering you?" or pet peeves, which usually invoke such responses as the rolling of one's eyes or audible tsking. But for the sake of this article we'll consider more drastic reactions to certain stimuli as "rages," which hopefully will not progress farther than being imaginary reactions. ...more

January 12, 2008