Democratic leaders in the Senate unveiled their proposal Wednesday for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the federal budget deficit. ...more

November 19, 2009

WASHINGTON — More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama's tax break that was designed to help consumers spend the U.S. economy out of recession. ...more

November 16, 2009

I have been in management at Premier Community HealthCare Group for about four years, and each day I hear about the devastating effects that being uninsured has on the well-being of people in our community. As the economy worsens and more and more Americans lose their jobs, the number of uninsured is soaring. ...more

March 28, 2009

The demand at the United Food Bank of Plant City has never been greater. ...more

January 28, 2009

The news has been filled with examples of taxpayer giveaways to banks, investment companies, giant insurance companies and the oil-rich country of Iraq. Now along comes a need to provide a $17 billion lifejacket to mismanaged auto corporations. ...more

December 24, 2008

On Monday morning, Michael Jacobson, executive director of Highlands County Habitat for Humanity, showed the first architectural drawings for the 100 townhouses that will go up at Ridgeview, Habitat's newest and by far biggest home building project ever. ...more

September 30, 2008

Highlands County was in danger of losing a $2.5 million state grant to help working families become homeowners. ...more

September 11, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will headline her own night at the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign announced Sunday in a nod to her strong second-place showing in the party's presidential primary. ...more

August 11, 2008

As families start putting together their back-to-school to-do lists, the Pasco County Health Department has joined Florida KidCare to remind parents to add one more item: health insurance for their children. Florida KidCare is the state's health insurance program for uninsured children under age 19. The program offers working families access to high-quality doctors and preventative care for their children at a low cost. Started in 1998, KidCare now covers more than 250,000 children statewide. ...more

August 6, 2008

In new television ads running in Tampa and nationwide, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama talks of learning "values straight from the Kansas heartland" from his mother and grandparents, and boasts that he "passed a law to move people from welfare to work, slashed the rolls by 80 percent." ...more

July 8, 2008