Ray Gadd, the interim director of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, says it's time for the $32 million-dollar-a-year charity to move beyond the forced resignation and suicide of its former director. ...more

November 4, 2009

The board of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services has picked a former assistant superintendent for the Pasco County school system as interim director following the recent resignation and suicide of its former director, Michael Bernstein. ...more

October 30, 2009

The founder and former head of Clearwater-based Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services was found dead last week in a Valdosta, Ga., hotel room in an apparent suicide. ...more

October 27, 2009

In a brief court hearing today, Pinellas Circuit Judge Frank Quesada called David Earley, 46, "the poster child of deadbeat dads" and said he is prepared to send Earley to prison for not supporting his kids. ...more

February 25, 2009

His former wife calls him a deadbeat dad. A state prosecutor wants him behind bars. But a local community organization says David William Earley may just be dead broke. ...more

February 6, 2009

Everybody's talking about David William Earley. His former wife calls him a deadbeat dad. A state prosecutor wants him behind bars. And now a local community organization said maybe Earley is really just dead broke. If so, said Michael Bernstein of Gulf Coast Jewish Family Services, the New Port Richey man is in good company. Earley, who may face prison for failure to pay a quarter-million dollars in child support and for hiding from probation officers, is like a lot of people helped by Jewish Family Services, Bernstein suggests. ...more

February 5, 2009

The week before Christmas, after more than six years of homelessness, I moved into a city-owned senior housing apartment in Rancho Mirage, Calif., near Palm Springs. I had been on the waiting list there for several years. ...more

January 31, 2009

Banks, mortgage companies, even automakers have asked for, and in some cases received, billions of dollars in federal taxpayer dollars to offset poor decisions that left them deep in debt. ...more

December 7, 2008

In Florida, during a time of huge federal bailouts, nonprofit broups are being denied funding for 2009 because of the lagging economy and declining revenue. ...more

December 4, 2008

There is no shortage of genealogy lectures in the Central Florida area this month. ...more

November 2, 2008