Re: "Schneck gives green light to red light camera debate" in the March 7 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

March 10, 2010

The city will hold a special budget meeting in January to address an anticipated $157,000 shortfall in revenues. ...more

December 9, 2008

The draining of the trust fund for highways, and an emergency transfer of general tax dollars into it, exemplify much of what is going wrong in Washington. ...more

September 16, 2008

Speech Was Vindictive I was appalled, but not surprised Wednesday night to hear Gov. Palin launch vindictively into Sen. Obama without providing an ounce of substance about where she thinks a McCain administration should focus. I was particularly affected by her characterization of the war in Iraq as "God's task." That assertion is at the very least xenophobic, and at best fundamentalist. ...more

September 6, 2008

The July 31 issue of this newspaper had the headline "Higher School Tax Rate Proposed." I would prefer to see a headline that reads "Lower Rate of Spending Proposed." Of course, we will most likely not ever see that. However, I would propose that the school board and the commissions of the county and various municipalities publish an income and expense statement in the two local newspapers. By publishing these two statements we the taxpayers would be able to see just where the income is derived and where it is spent On the income side it should indicate exactly where the source is, for example; real estate tax, fuel tax and sales tax etc. and on the expense side exactly where our tax dollars are going, for example; payrolls, new vehicles, travel and entertainment, police and fire, consultants and donations etc. ...more

August 4, 2008

Struggling with record diesel prices, the trucking industry's main trade group introduced a plan Thursday to reduce fuel consumption and emissions over the next decade mainly by having its members slow down. ...more

May 9, 2008