Thousands of workers at U.S. Sugar thought they were getting a good deal when the company shelved their pension plan and gave them stock for their retirement instead. They had a heady sense of controlling their own destiny as they became the company's biggest shareholders, Vic McCorvey, a former farm manager there, said. ...more

May 29, 2008

SEBRING — Nursing homes and long term care facilities are places where many of us hope we never go, but where nearly half who reach retirement age will eventually reside. Several factors determine when it's time to sell the car, stop cooking and move into a skilled nursing facility or adult living center. Hanford Brace is a family physician with Integrity Health and regularly works with seniors. He said that residency at a skilled nursing facility after an illness or injury doesn't rule out a return home. ...more

May 11, 2008

Whose mom wouldn't enjoy a Mother's Day ride down a wooded lane to Faith Fellowship Church, a small old-fashioned place of worship? ...more

May 10, 2008

I like your question-and-answer column in the Hernando Today section of The Tampa Tribune and wonder if you can answer a question for me. ...more

February 25, 2008

Flights in the United States were late more than 26 percent of the time last year, a slightly better performance than in 2000, when airlines were tardy 27.4 percent of the time. The federal government began collecting airlines on-time data in 1995. ...more

February 6, 2008

Domestic airline delays in 2007 were the second worst on record, the Transportation Department said Tuesday. ...more

February 6, 2008

Estimates are that every hour nearly 400 Baby Boomers are turning 62 years of age and therefore becoming eligible to apply for early Social Security retirement benefits. ...more

February 4, 2008

and maybe they're right. ...more

January 24, 2008

For the first time in a decade, new investors will be able to put money into a mutual fund that helped fuel Fidelity Investments' rapid growth in the 1980s and '90s, but has recently seen many retirement-age investors withdraw their cash. ...more

January 15, 2008

Like father, like son. That was my immediate reaction to a new federal study that said more than one out of three of today's 17-year-olds won't have any money saved up once they hit retirement age in the 2050s and beyond. ...more

December 30, 2007