Michael Sarver, latest castoff from "American Idol," isn't ready to go back to the oil rig. ...more

March 27, 2009

"Populist anger in America is the anger of dispossession," writes Newsweek's Rick Perlstein. "The delinking of effort and reward has become all too manifest. That always makes Americans angry. We do not like to reward those who do not produce." ...more

March 26, 2009

The South Florida Community College softball team played solid ball against Santa Fe in Saturday's doubleheader. ...more

March 24, 2009

NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. ...more

March 23, 2009

Sometimes good ideas have to be put on hold during desperate times, and considering Florida's economic climate, that time is now. We support a bill sponsored by Rep. Denise Grimsley that would postpone impact fees for a set period of time, although we differ on the length of the postponement. ...more

March 13, 2009

Legislation to extend law enforcement officers' "bill of rights" should be called the "Keep Bad Cops Employed Act." If adopted, it will be virtually impossible for police and sheriff departments to cleanse miscreants from their ranks. ...more

March 9, 2009

Years ago I made the mistake of declaring income I received from a financial investment as dividends. A year or two later I was advised by the IRS that this income should have been reported as interest, and I had to pay the difference, plus interest. ...more

March 4, 2009

Microsoft is asking some laid-off employees for a portion of their severance back, ...more

February 23, 2009

A South Carolina sheriff is not going to charge swimmer Michael Phelps after a photo of the 14-time gold medalist showed him smoking from a marijuana pipe. ...more

February 16, 2009

For the life of me I cannot figure out the way people think. Here we have a man who himself admitted to having used cocaine, our President Barack Obama. Then we have a swimmer, Michael Phelps, who has won more gold medals than would fit on my mantle, smoking pot and we all but crucify him. Where is the logic in this? ...more

February 12, 2009