Kathy Burke is CEO at Brooksville Regional Hospital and interim CEO at Spring Hill Regional. ...more

August 31, 2008

The number of Americans who have seen their full-time jobs chopped to part-time because of weak business has swelled to more than 3.7 million - the largest figure since the government began tracking such data more than half a century ago. ...more

August 3, 2008

A week after Seth Ellis proposed a live-fire training center near Venus, the Marion County Commission turned down a combined law enforcement and search-and-rescue facility near Ocala. ...more

July 30, 2008

They're not exactly rock-band material, at least by all appearances. Three adults, whose ages total 125 years. Seven kids altogether. Full-time jobs in the real world for two of them. ...more

July 12, 2008

Every year the American Cancer Society invites cancer survivors to their "Relay For Life." I attended the one on April 26 in Sebring at Firemen's Field. This year all the volunteers and businesses outdid themselves. They must have put in long hours to do such a great job. ...more

May 8, 2008

Ronald Reagan was in his first term as president and Jill Santoriello was still in high school when she started writing songs inspired by Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' ...more

October 11, 2007

City officials are facing another bare-bones budget this year. Thursday, city commissioners will hold the first of two public hearings on the proposed spending plan for the 2007-08 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. Typically, the commission approves a final budget and property tax rate immediately after the second public hearing, which will be Sept. 27. ...more

September 9, 2007