Americans have been taught that crime does not pay. ...more

February 6, 2009

Could all this economic mayhem actually be healthy on some level, or is that some lame attempt at finding a silver lining on something that has no upside? It's difficult to say there is a bright side, but it's clear we were drowning in phony numbers and a day of reckoning was long overdue. Perhaps the surprise is that it took so long for it to happen. ...more

December 19, 2008

Enough Blame To Go Around Florida is different from most other states. ...more

October 10, 2008

Sadly, history has a way of repeating itself. It is particularly alarming to note the parallels between the economic crisis that devastated America in the late 1920s and the implosion in the financial markets that is occurring today. What does history teach us about the ingredients common to these parallel crises? And how do our presidential candidates stack up in light of these similarities? ...more

September 26, 2008

It's time to turn around America, and we need to start here in Florida. Our state is already economic-distress ground zero: shrinking home values, expanding unemployment, growing piles of unpaid bills on working families' tables. It's no surprise the economy has overtaken the war in Iraq as the top concern of Americans. ...more

February 20, 2008

Again, kudos to Mike Bates (The Lone Ranger) and Hernando Today. ...more

February 6, 2008

By releasing 'In Rainbows' as a pay-what-you-will download (a conventional CD package is to be released in 2008), Radiohead stirred up plenty of speculation about its latest album, almost none of it having to do with the music. ...more

October 19, 2007

Here at the world center of college football, police barricades and yellow tape keep fair-weather students orderly as they gather to devour tickets and quote the King James version of the Top 25 polls. ...more

October 13, 2007