The financial crisis and the recession it spawned have created much confusion and uncertainty across the land. The causes of the downturn are hotly debated — and spun for political advantage. Solutions have, so far, remained elusive. ...more

March 20, 2009

President Barack Obama is right when he says he won the election, and people voted for change. ...more

February 8, 2009

President Barack Obama is right when he says he won the election, and people voted for change. ...more

February 8, 2009

Highlands County plans to request $29.7 million from President Obama's economic stimulus package. ...more

January 4, 2009

Barack Obama is likely to choose Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for the job of secretary of homeland security, top Obama advisers and several Democrats said Thursday as the shape of the president-elect's Cabinet begins to emerge. ...more

November 20, 2008

After reading Frances Earl's recent column this past Thursday, I have come to the conclusion that she likes to make things up. Things like: Republicans coming out in droves for Sen. Barack Obama. Well, the only Republicans I know who are backing Obama are the spineless Washington insiders who are more interested in being invited to Washington parties and being liked by the media. I am talking about the so-called: "Blue Blood Republicans" or moderate Republicans. But the true conservative Republicans would in no way vote for someone like Obama whose new age socialism would truly put this country into debt if all of his programs were in put into play. ...more

November 5, 2008

Sherrie Candelaria, a PTA president and mother of five from Wesley Chapel, is dead set on voting for Sarah Palin, a former PTA president and mother of five from Alaska. ...more

October 23, 2008

Republican John McCain may have stayed on the offensive during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama, but for the last 19 days of the presidential campaign he will be playing nothing but defense. ...more

October 17, 2008

Ask a dozen die-hard Democrats across the country what Hillary Rodham Clinton can do to beat Barack Obama and win the presidential nomination and they have plenty of ideas - some of them contradictory. ...more

February 18, 2008