A public forum in Tampa Wednesday to discuss the government's banking and economic-recovery plans revealed the local business community deeply worried about the immediate financial future. ...more

February 20, 2009

I have heard the term "tax" and "spend" used so derogatorily about the Democrats by many Republicans in their campaign spiels that I decided to find out the validity of the usage. That meant a little research into the federal budget about income, spending and related borrowing. After a little digging I wondered, maybe the wrong party was labeled taxers and spenders. Take a look at the results of the following information. What do you think? I quickly found that I could not limit the scope of this examination to the present situation, so I went back 40 years to 1967, it includes four presidents before the current incumbent (G.W. Bush.) These four presidents are equally divided, two from each party with one four year termer and one eight-year-termer. Dollars are in billions and are founded to the nearest Billion. ...more

November 1, 2008

People who knew him say that when Lee Boswell turned up at Florida College, they could have placed a wager on the garb he would sport and the gifts he would bear. ...more

August 27, 2008

People who knew him say that when Lee Boswell turned up at Florida College, they could have placed a wager on the garb he would sport and the gifts he would bear. "He would arrive on campus in khaki pants, a straw hat and usually with a cigar in his mouth," said Bob Owen, Florida College president from 1982 to 1991. "And, he always had two sacks: One was a sack of oranges for the students, and one was a sack of money to make sure the faculty got paid." Owen, who is married to Boswell's daughter Janelle, was among the speakers at the Aug. 15 dedication of the new 320-capacity Boswell Hall for male students, named in honor of the college's longtime supporter, a Lakeland citrus farmer who died in 1994, and his wife, Margaret, the mother of their five daughters. The ceremony also marked the opening of the Christian college's 90-student-capacity Terrace Hall, the neighboring new women's dormitory. ...more

August 22, 2008

Questions and answers about the housing bill signed by President Bush on Wednesday to help as many as 400,000 struggling homeowners facing foreclosure: ...more

July 31, 2008

Microsoft has withdrawn its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo, scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google. ...more

May 4, 2008

Our country's national debt is in the trillions of dollars, most Americans are head-over-heels in personal debt, most have not saved anything for retirement - and yet, the government's answer is to reward us with a tax rebate to "stimulate" the economy. And they may have to borrow the rebate from China, adding to the national debt. ...more

February 3, 2008