The most heartbreaking e-mail alerts that crossed my computer screen this holiday season arrived from an active, progressive union that has set up a fund for medical benefits for widows and orphans of their former members. ...more

December 21, 2008 |

Please allow me to use this medium to thank many people. ...more

November 20, 2008 |

If you lose your job, you lose your health insurance and then you lose your life. ...more

September 30, 2008 |

Feudalistic Society ...more

September 11, 2008 |

SEBRING — As the economy is tanking, more people seem to want to ride a tank… at least with the Army National Guard. A local recruiter for the Army National Guard estimated Tuesday that he has seen a 10-percent increase in the number of people calling or coming to his office to sign up. He believed the economy was a factor in the increase, even though he also credited a more "aggressive marketing technique" over the Internet for the added interest. ...more

July 4, 2008 |

Following in the steps of famous Gens. Douglas MacArthur, George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower, East Bay High School's Christopher Collins is headed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. ...more

May 21, 2008 |

LARGO - Bob Puccinelli, who was a maintenance worker at a nuclear weapons plant, died Wednesday morning of pancreatic and liver cancer. He was 72. ...more

February 13, 2008 |

At the clinic where I went the other day, the nurses told me that I could have only one Medicare charge per day. ...more

February 11, 2008 |

Retirement Not Cushy Regarding "Not Just Baby Boomers' Issue" (Letters, Jan. 27): ...more

February 2, 2008 |

The Largo plant produced nuclear weapons during the cold war, and the government promised to pay the medical bills of workers who were sick from radiation and chemical exposure. ...more

January 15, 2008 |