LAND O' LAKES - The Pasco County School Board has given its approval to contract agreements that give teachers and other school district employees one-time pay supplements but no raises or step increases. ...more

November 19, 2009

Residents throughout the city seem drawn to the code compliance department's latest means of transportation. ...more

August 24, 2009

After considering a price increase, the school district's food service director told the school board recently that lunch prices will not be going up at this time. ...more

August 2, 2009

Someone who bought a Florida Lotto ticket from a Sun City Center grocery store should be very happy right about now. ...more

April 10, 2009

I listened to the congressional hearing on the "bonus" hassle at AIG most of the afternoon. I feel this mess is really the fault of the Congress. I make this statement based on the fact that the stimulus bill was rushed and passed without debate by the Congress. They just passed something about which they knew nothing. At the time a sense of "panic" was created to the effect that, if there wasn't quick action not only a "national" but a "worldwide" financial catastrophe could occur. I wondered at the time how the "tanking" of one insurance company could cause such a worldwide disaster. I feel that the continuing bailout of AIG with billions and billions of taxpayers money, by Congress, has a deeper reason than what appears on the surface or what is being revealed to the public. ...more

March 22, 2009

The University of South Florida, always on the cutting edge, has a new plan to improve schools. ...more

March 13, 2009

As Gary Roberts pondered his future over the weekend, he understood exactly where he stood with the Lightning had he chose not to retire. While he would have been with the team, he was probably not going to see the ice outside of practices. ...more

March 12, 2009

New University of South Florida defensive coordinator Joe Tresey was brought in to help the Bulls maintain their status as one of the nation's top defenses. ...more

March 11, 2009

Inspiration doesn't come easily or often to me, but when it arrives, it's a lollapalooza. ...more

February 25, 2009

I found a great deal of interesting reading in the paper last week. I read that Steve Chapman is offering corn-fed Iowa some of Illinois' overabundance of indicted officials, as a bonus offering them Lake Michigan and a baseball team. I suppose every state could find some things it would be willing to offer, in a reasonable exchange! The whole country is in a meltdown. Another thing I read was the revelation that Floridians give President Obama high approval ratings. Now, I know that many of us are retirees on fixed incomes, and we are grateful for any freebies we can get, but are we willing to have them charged to our children and great-grandchildren? Who is going to pay these bills when they come due? A few trillion dollars would seem to be quite a chunk of change! ...more

February 24, 2009