As Legislators aim to cut $600 million in state education funding, the School Board of Highlands County and South Florida Community College are looking at additional spending cuts that would not compromise student education. ...more

January 8, 2009

The United Nations Panel on Climate Change is calling for sacrifice on the part of the American people in order to fight global warming. Their solution is for us to eat no meat one night a week. They have estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

September 19, 2008

Florida's unemployment rate in July increased to 6.1 percent, the highest in the state in 13 years. ...more

August 16, 2008

The Iraqi government could end this year with as much as a $79 billion cumulative budget surplus, based largely on ever-increasing oil revenue, congressional auditors say. ...more

August 6, 2008

Sheriff Bob White would pare $1.1 million from his current $86 million budget and return an additional $1.5 million of unspent money from this year under the 2008-09 spending proposal he submitted to Pasco County officials Friday. ...more

May 31, 2008

As the University of South Florida prepares to announce its budget-cutting plan this week, its faculty union is saying, not so fast. ...more

May 20, 2008

Mere hours away from trying to finalize a very lean county budget, county commissioners had to jump through some more hoops this morning. ...more

September 25, 2007