I can handle the truth! The push for the November election brings commercial after commercial. ...more

September 14, 2008

Two weeks ago, Filip Kuba finalized his plans to attend Lightning training camp. ...more

September 11, 2008

The Children's Services Council will hold its meeting on Wednesday. One issue on the agenda will be a Truancy Bill Resolution. The Florida State Legislature passed the Bullying Bill this year after four long years of effort. This will be the third year of efforts to persuade the legislature to pass this companion Truancy Bill. The local Highlands County School Board has passed elements of its school regulations pertaining to bullying and truancy to more efficiently manage conduct on campus, but it is the state law and regulations which need to be updated for all 67 counties, to ensure a safe and suitable environment for students to learn in our public schools. Truancy is one significant consequence of bullying. One only has to note the level and intensity of destructive and violent behavior by students on and off campus, in news reports, to know that our educational institutions are in peril. ...more

August 25, 2008

Rick Warren hosted an opportunity for both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to respond to the same questions. ...more

August 22, 2008

I have never been an advocate of the popular notion that "everyone should vote." ...more

August 12, 2008

Bruce E. Ivins, the government's leading suspect in the 2001 anthrax killings, borrowed freeze-drying equipment from a bioweapons lab that fall that allows scientists to convert wet germ cultures into dry spores, according to sources briefed on the case. ...more

August 5, 2008

Just A Ponzi Scheme Regarding "Being Right About Social Security Can Make McCain Sound Wrong" (Our Opinion, July 10): ...more

July 19, 2008

CHICAGO - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight. ...more

June 20, 2008

It's official: Sen. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. ...more

June 7, 2008

A lot of people blame George Bush for all our country's problems, but we are the ones to blame, being as we elected him two times. We the people just keep on electing the same U.S. senators over and over again; some of these senators have been in office four to six times. When are we going to wise up? We the people are the only ones that can change it, we must insist on term limits for all Congress and House of Representatives. ...more

June 6, 2008