AVON PARK — The new Veteran's Service Center will be built this year. So what's next? The Sebring Community Based Outreach Clinic is too small, and veterans have to drive more than 100 miles to see specialists or have an operation performed, a group of former soldiers and sailors told U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney on Thursday in a summit at the Avon Park High School library. ...more

February 22, 2008

SEBRING — As the country moves toward energy independence, central Florida will be a key region, U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney told county school board officials and administrators. "This is going to transform Highlands County," he said Thursday. "We believe that we are going to generate over 10,000 high-paying jobs in this region in the next 10 years." ...more

February 22, 2008

SEBRING — In 2005, when Tim Mahoney entered the 16th District congressional race against Mark Foley, political prognosticators gave him no chance to win. As late as Sept. 12, 2006, even a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee poll had Mahoney trailing Foley 35 to 48 percent. But on Sept. 29, Foley resigned after a Web site revealed the congressman had been sending salacious e-mails to teenaged House pages. ...more

December 27, 2007

The U.S. House has passed legislation authorizing the creation of a national catastrophe fund that would help ensure American families are able to rebuild and recover in the aftermath of massive natural disasters. ...more

November 16, 2007

An effort led by two freshmen Florida congressmen to address skyrocketing home insurance costs tied to national disasters may have been hijacked by presidential politics Thursday. ...more

November 9, 2007

SEBRING — The election season started early for presidential candidates, but it's also revving up in Highlands County. ...more

October 25, 2007

WASHINGTON — Mason Smoak, a citrus producer and cattle rancher from Lake Placid, testified before Congress on Thursday about the labor needs of the American agriculture industry. The House Agriculture Committee convened a hearing, requested by U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney, D-Palm Beach Gardens, to examine the issues of worker verification, hiring and retaining agriculture laborers, and the implications of current federal regulations. ...more

October 6, 2007

It's too early to say whether the visit last week from presidential candidate Mitt Romney's son is the first of many stops through this part of Florida, but we hope so. ...more

September 30, 2007