Has anyone else noticed that every time the paper runs a story that involves one of our illustrious leaders, they're always on vacation and unavailable for comment? ...more

September 24, 2009

It is amazing that we get a couple days of rain, and we have major arteries flooded, access to a major hospital blocked and good citizens clamoring for help to get streets drained properly. ...more

July 6, 2009

The timing could not be better with three events that occurred this past weekend (March 15) Mentoring article in Parade Magazine, a seminar on bullying in North Carolina and good deeds by citizens across the country. ...more

March 29, 2009

Our school system needs to make serious inroads into the education of the bottom 50 percent of our students. ...more

March 13, 2009

I realize that we seem to have beaten a dead horse when we talk about prices at the pump for gasoline. But after seeing a story in Highlands Today I couldn't resist adding a few more comments on the subject. ...more

February 19, 2009

The Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce is looking for a few good citizens. ...more

December 17, 2008

For the past six weeks, Seminole resident John Piazza said he has had to buy plenty of John McCain signs to replace the ones that have gone missing from his front yard. ...more

November 3, 2008

Forty-seven-year veteran Boy Scout leader John F. Miller smiled broadly when he talked about cooking peach cobbler in a cast iron skillet. ...more

October 20, 2008

Judging from the solid waste generated by some first-rate public relations flackery, you would think the good citizens of Central Florida arise every morning and gaze longingly out their windows in the unrequited hope that someday soon a CSX choo-choo will come blowing by to turn their pastureland into a teaming hub of locomotion. ...more

May 3, 2008

Newly hired Hernando County Administrator David Hamilton will start his new duties even sooner than expected. ...more

February 13, 2008