This book makes baking European-style breads like brioche and cinnamon buns a breeze. ...more

March 20, 2009

About 20 employers offering a broad range of jobs will meet with job seekers next week at a fair designed specifically for people with disabilities. ...more

October 22, 2008

About 20 employers offering a broad range of jobs will meet with hundreds of job seekers next week at a fair designed specifically for people with disabilities. ...more

October 22, 2008

With eyes and minds wide open of those evaluating the goings-on at Lightning training camp, preconceived notions stand a chance to be erased. ...more

September 24, 2008

I felt compelled to write about my unexpected friendship with Ralph Hughes, who passed away recently. I have worked for more than one candidate who was on the losing side of Ralph. He had a reputation, one that I had heard about for most of my years in local politics. You didn't want to be on the other side of Ralph. But because of political parties that is where I found myself for many years. ...more

July 7, 2008

David Manson embraces almost all aspects of Brazilian culture, but he takes a pass on the caipirinha. ...more

June 22, 2008

Small Price To Pay Since housing, insurance, energy and the economy are such huge concerns now, I would like to offer a proven solution that gets very little press due to false, preconceived notions. Why not build a hurricane proof house that also passively heats and cools itself, within limits, and pays for itself in total assets saved over 14 years? ...more

May 18, 2008

It's getting ugly out on the presidential campaign trail. Attack ads are heating up, so are tempers. And, as usual, few of the attacks are truthful and fudging the facts is raised to an art form. No one knows this better than Republican candidate Mike Huckabee. Huckabee, who has been surging in the polls for weeks, is taking a pounding in Iowa at the hands of some of the folks who bankrolled the Swift Boat fiasco. A Houston, Texas, home builder, who funded much of the unsubstantiated rumors surrounding the Sen. John Kerry presidential bid, has turned on a Republican. He claims Huckabee was a big spender as governor of Arkansas. It's true Huckabee spent taxpayer money in Arkansas. He admits this, and has a good reason why he did it. His state was one of the worst in the nation on education, and the state's poor school system was infamous around the nation. ...more

December 28, 2007

SEBRING — David Poteat is proud of his family's Southern heritage, and he and other local people have formed a group to research and tell stories of their Confederate roots. He also understands that some people have preconceived notions about his group that are far from the truth. Poteat is quick to point out that a new Highlands County chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans is "in no way a hate organization." In fact, the group has fought alleged hate groups in court who have used Confederate themes to spread their agenda, he adds. ...more

December 13, 2007

The Tampa Convention Center could become the latest publicly owned building that doubles as a billboard for a major corporation. ...more

November 27, 2007