The creators of the "Got Milk?" campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on children's minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity activists none too pleased. ...more

November 9, 2009

Take a closer look the next time you pack a school lunch. What's inside that lunchbox may not be as healthy as you think. ...more

February 4, 2009

Parents: Take a closer look the next time you pack a school lunch. What's inside that lunch box may not be as healthy as you think. ...more

February 3, 2009

Nutritional information helps parents decide what's healthy and what's not, whether their kids are brown bagging it or buying food at school. ...more

February 3, 2009

Believe it or not, an alarm clock can change a child's life trajectory. Don't buy that? Well, before you discount the suggestion, check out Janine Walker Caffrey's book, "Drive: Nine Ways to Motivate Your Kids to Achieve," which has been generating a lot of buzz lately. ...more

January 3, 2009

I could scarcely believe my eyes while reading Mr. Whiteman's column titled "Bigotry Outnumbered This Election Season." He obviously does not include himself in the group of those overcome. He states "We must pray that this is not the first jihad in the United States." Jihad? The U.S. population electing a Christian man as president of the United States is a jihad? What is this person thinking? Was he thinking the unspoken, that Mr. Obama is really a Muslim and therefore the Jihad connection? How bigoted! And how can your newspaper print such rubbish? His mistaken notion of what the Democratic Party stands for is up to him. But it is more of a statement of how limited his knowledge really is rather than accurate. ...more

November 9, 2008

You don't need to be a true gourmet to pack kids' lunches that look the part. ...more

November 2, 2008

School's started. It's that no-time-to-do-anything time of year again. ...more

August 20, 2008

Poor countries will need some $6 billion in food aid annually, with food and energy prices expected to remain high for years to come, the president of the World Bank said Saturday. ...more

July 13, 2008

Along with countless others, we are facing a possible foreclosure. We moved to Sebring in 2003, two weeks before the hurricanes. We managed to buy several pieces of property since it was a buyer's market at that time. We were doing great, we had never been late with our mortgage, our taxes were up to date, our bills were all paid, until now. The housing market is a small part of our recent problem, but the major problem is that we are sub contractors for drywall finishing. When we moved to Highlands County, we did work for several contractors; contractors who require Worker's Compensation insurance, liability insurance, county licensing, etc. We complied with everything that was requested of us. During the course of time, the jobs started diminishing because we were getting out-bid by other "crews." These other crews were giving local contractors extremely low bids, making it impossible to compete with them. ...more

January 5, 2008