Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the federal government has made limited progress toward preventing a catastrophic nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil and in combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction abroad, according to a report card to be issued today by 22 former U.S. officials. ...more

September 10, 2008

Deadbeat dads and moms across the country are discovering that their economic stimulus checks from Washington - intended to encourage the purchase of TVs, cars and other goods - are being intercepted and funneled toward the support of their children. ...more

September 10, 2008

The effort to get a control tower at the Hernando County Airport is in the air. ...more

September 9, 2008

The federal highway trust fund will run out of money this month, requiring delays in payments to states for transportation construction projects, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. ...more

September 6, 2008

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson has asked Gov. Charlie Crist to seek federal disaster declarations from the federal government for 36 Florida counties battered by high winds, excessive rainfall, flooding or tornados from Tropical Storm Fay. Highlands County is included on the list. ...more

September 5, 2008

Terry Maher of New Port Richey longs for the simpler days of public education. ...more

September 3, 2008

I feel compelled to write this letter in the hope that others who are getting the same treatment will stand up and say "enough!" What I am referring to is my TRIM notice from our esteemed property appraiser, Alvin Mazourek, who always seems to use technical excuses and "selective" use of sales to inflate our property values. ...more

August 28, 2008

Dozens of energy companies bid Tuesday to explore nearly two million acres of the western Gulf of Mexico for oil and natural gas, but no offers were made for 90 percent of the acreage on the auction block. ...more

August 20, 2008

Rare loggerhead sea turtles are having a record nesting season on the Georgia coast and have been laying eggs in promising numbers on southern Atlantic beaches from Florida to the Carolinas. ...more

August 15, 2008

On July 30 President Bush signed into law the $300 billion housing bill to bail out the mortgage lenders who gave loans to the homebuyers who bought homes they couldn't afford. That just proves that ours is not really a free-market economy. If it was, the government would let the greedy lenders and homebuyers who couldn't afford the loans straighten out their own messes. Instead, we taxpayers foot the bill - once again. ...more

August 1, 2008