Civic activist Janey Baldwin is urging county commissioners to perform an immediate audit into the fiscal management of the county's legal office. ...more

May 29, 2008

Welfare as we knew it ended years ago. But not for farmers. ...more

May 20, 2008

Democrats are sharply questioning a U.S. aid program that has reimbursed Pakistan's military $6 billion since 2001 for anti-terrorism operations along its Afghanistan border, contending the program has grown too costly. ...more

May 7, 2008

Michael Mattia of Tarpon Springs critical of city officials' opposition to proposed state property tax system changes. ...more

January 8, 2008

The Bush administration is working to combat the country's severe housing crisis but there is no simple solution, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday, adding that a correction in the housing market is "inevitable and necessary." ...more

January 8, 2008

Task Forces To Nowhere Regarding "Pipeline Of Seniors To Florida Slows" (front page, Dec. 20): ...more

December 29, 2007

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

Strahinja Krsmanovic has become the fifth local Serbian immigrant to walk away from federal charges alleging he lied to immigration authorities about his service in the Serbian army. ...more

December 4, 2007

Strahinja Krsmanovic has become the fifth local Serbian immigrant to walk away from federal charges alleging he lied to immigration authorities about his service in the Serbian army. ...more

December 3, 2007

From start to finish, fire commissioner Robert Giammarco barked about the board's tendency - in his view - to waste taxpayer money, but one colleague barked back, accusing him of being misguidedly tightfisted. ...more

November 30, 2007