Maybe I am rushing the season but I am seeing Christmas advertisements already and decided this might be a good time to send this letter. ...more

November 16, 2008

My wife and I are 65. I work full time and my wife, part time. We'd like to sell our house because it's too big for us. But we know this is not a good time, so we're waiting for the market to improve. In the meantime, we're paying an extra $500 a month on our mortgage. We have a balance of $155,000, and the house was appraised at $240,000 in March. ...more

November 9, 2008

There's at least one mortgage company that still sees opportunity in the real estate market. ...more

November 6, 2008

Galina Komissarchuk said she and her husband had been arguing with their daughter and son-in-law, when her daughter unexpectedly showed up at her parents' Sarasota house late at night. ...more

November 5, 2008

Will stocks benefit now that the government is letting investors bet on financial stocks going down? ...more

October 10, 2008

The Tampa Bay Rays fans could have stayed home to watch Friday night's baseball game. ...more

September 27, 2008

Tampa Bay Rays fans are filing into a Tampa park tonight, setting up shop near a giant TV screen to watch the Rays face the Detroit Tigers. ...more

September 26, 2008

Clem Brooks looks perfect in his uniform, and perfectly happy in it. The black-and-white striped shirt. The white pants. The shiny black shoes and belt. ...more

September 26, 2008

It took just seven pitches for LHP David Price to set the Yankees down in order in his first inning as a major-leaguer, but to hear him tell it his knees were shaking the entire time. ...more

September 15, 2008

I want to applaud the Avon Park City Council members for looking at making the hard decisions. I think it's interesting that it has almost come full circle in the fact that people have forgotten that we live in a small city, but it looks like some people had visions of expanding greatly, which has caused some of our fiscal issues in addition to lower revenues coming in. Even though I might not always agree with George Hall, I applaud him for saying the hard facts at the council meeting. ...more

September 5, 2008