The Florida Legislature returned to Tallahassee last week to make the budgetary reductions necessary to meet our state's constitutional requirement for a balanced budget. ...more

January 13, 2009

With less than two years before her 50th anniversary as a nun, Sister Claire LeBoeuf is too busy to think about her golden jubilee. ...more

December 3, 2008

THONOTOSASSA - With less than two years before her 50th anniversary as a nun, Sister Claire LeBoeuf is too busy to think about her golden jubilee. She has a residential village to build on a 72-acre site off U.S. 301. ...more

November 28, 2008

Andrea Reynolds, a mother of four young children in southern Louisiana, can't remember the last time she bought a dress. She also can't remember her last vacation - unless, she quips, you count those three weeks in a hotel fleeing Hurricane Rita in 2005. ...more

October 26, 2008

TAMPA If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then bands such as AC/DC and Pink Floyd should feel sincerely flattered. ...more

October 16, 2008

Election No-Brainer There are two questions that I wish to elaborate on about this upcoming presidential election. ...more

October 11, 2008

Mayor Cliff McDuffie called it a "no-brainer." Yes, the city could get its Community Development Block Grant application in by the Sept. 29 deadline. Yes, it could probably score high enough to land the $750,000 grant to relieve downtown flooding well enough for the fire department to move back into its Sixth Street station. ...more

September 24, 2008

With money tight, Zephyrhills won't apply for a matching grant to fix flooding problems downtown. ...more

September 23, 2008

Use it or lose it. The 160,000 people in Hernando County seem to have voted with their feet. Less than 1 percent of county residents use THE Bus. The average nationwide sage is 5 percent. Conclusion: Park THE Bus, at least for the next few years. ...more

June 22, 2008

Use it or lose it. The 160,000 people in Hernando County seem to have voted with their feet. ...more

June 21, 2008