SEBRING – Contract negotiations Friday morning with Michael Wright virtually guaranteed that he will begin work on Monday, June 2, as Highlands County's new chief executive officer. Wright agreed to the major points of the contract offered to him by the county commissioners: a $150,000 per year salary and a $600 per month car allowance. ...more

May 9, 2008

SEBRING — Michael Wright, the heir apparent to retiring Highlands County Administrator Carl Cool, will be offered a salary of $150,000 per year to become the county's new chief executive officer. The five county commissioners unanimously decided on Tuesday to offer Wright that salary, which would be about $14,000 above the salary of Cool, a county employee for more than 30 years, the past 17 as administrator. ...more

May 6, 2008

An end to Hollywood's long and bitter writers' strike appeared close Saturday, as union leaders representing 12,000 movie and television writers said they had reached a tentative deal with production companies. ...more

February 10, 2008