President Obama was crystal clear last spring when he said a new tax credit called Making Work Pay would boost the spending power of 120 million families and save or create 500,000 jobs. ...more

November 23, 2009

School board members are set to approve increasing the district's monthly share for health benefits by $55 for each non-instructional employee while teacher negotiations are still ongoing. ...more

October 30, 2009

One of the leading controversies on the Sunday TV talk shows was the appropriateness of the government imposing limits on the executive compensation packages of those corporations which have been bailed out with tax funds. A moment's reflection on the fact that the taxpayer now stands in the place of the stockholder as the owner of these companies should be a sufficient justification for these limits. Stockholders, as the owners of a corporation, originally set the compensation of its officers and employees, but over the years, the officers and boards of directors, through a series of strategies, wrested control from the stockholders and, treating the companies as their own, set their own compensations without regard for the wishes of the true owners, the stockholders. Their view? If you don't like it, sell you stock. A board room "coup de corps!" ...more

October 27, 2009

City firefighters will not be guaranteed merit or cost of living raises under a new contract waiting for approval from the city council. ...more

September 19, 2009

Regarding J. Ron Smith's letter in the Sept. 4 issue. Mr. Smith is concerned because "Rep. Rooney had already made up his mind to vote against the health care reform bill, no matter the content." Well, from what I have read in this newspaper, Rep. Tom Rooney has done something that virtually no Democrat congressperson has done so far; he actually read the bill (HR 3200.) ...more

September 11, 2009

Consistently focusing on doing the necessary things to achieve your goals will win out every time. ...more

May 9, 2009

On Tuesday, the City Council accepted a memorandum officially announcing City Manager Thomas O'Neill's retirement, effective May 31. A successor to the position has already been selected - Thomas O'Neill, as of July 1. ...more

March 7, 2009

On Tuesday, the New Port Richey City Council accepted a memorandum officially announcing City Manager Thomas O'Neill's retirement, effective May 31. ...more

March 7, 2009

A county employee accused of falsifying documents for roughly $9,300 in overtime pay was diverted into a court-supervised program on Friday. ...more

February 25, 2009

A Nanny State I read with interest in the Trib that the Democratic Congress had passed a law to delay the change from analog television to digital until summer. We have had three years of constant public announcements and millions of dollars in certificates to get new boxes, and some people are still not on board. ...more

February 6, 2009