The Avon Park City Council is sending a message to the governor - that it opposes Miami-Dade County's effort to eliminate municipalities from lawfully setting higher utility rates for customers outside the city limits. ...more

December 29, 2008

If huge loans to U.S. automakers would save the domestic part of the industry and help the nation more quickly pull out of the recession, it would be well worth supporting. ...more

December 12, 2008

Gay rights activists plan to demonstrate outside Gov. Charlie Crist's wedding to Carole Rome this month. ...more

December 2, 2008

It is easy to be cynical. After all, when you reach retirement age as I have, you have experienced disappointment, unfairness and many obstacles that make you forget just how important it is to stay focused and continue to do the right things to make the world a better place for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. ...more

October 26, 2008

My husband and I decided to vote by absentee ballot this year for the first time. When we opened our ballots, we were shocked to see that on the ballot, it said that it must be filled out with a No. 2 pencil, and yet the secret sleeve we were to put the completed ballot in before mailing said that the ballot had to be filled out in either blue or black ink. Both said that if not done properly, the vote would not count. ...more

October 15, 2008

The proposed federal rescue of the nation's financial system has investors breathing easier, but one Tampa financial executive is steaming about the unfairness of it all. He's right. Every honest participant in the system should be outraged. ...more

September 24, 2008

Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer. ...more

July 6, 2008

Rejected first draft of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's "concession" speech: ...more

June 11, 2008

Pay-As-You-Go System Of Taxation The Fairest Save Our Homes is an unfair system and is probably unconstitutional. Whereas the milder unfairness of yesteryears didn't have the momentum or visibility to bring this fact to light, there is now ample evidence of this. ...more

January 9, 2008

In an effort to eliminate some of what is being emitted by presidential candidates during presidential debates, I have come up with a "simple plan." Once the parties have their presidential candidates established, this is what they should do. Each presidential candidate could ask his or her opponent 50 questions that the opponent must answer, yes or no. A. The candidate pledges that his or her name could not be put on the ballot unless they answer these 50 questions, yes or no. ...more

December 3, 2007