Is the love affair outsiders have with Florida losing its zest? A drop in driver's license applications from out-of-state residents certainly suggests they've cooled to the Sunshine State's charms. The number of applications from outsiders has tumbled 30 percent during the past five years, dropping from more than 585,000 in 2003 to about 410,000 in 2008, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. ...more

February 20, 2009

Is the love affair outsiders have with Florida losing its zest? ...more

February 19, 2009

The community known for its plethora of deed restrictions and zest for carrying them out is now being accused of not doing enough to enforce the rules. ...more

November 26, 2008

Regarding Randy Ludacer's comments in the Nov. 19 Highlands Today: Far left liberals enjoy flaunting their hatred for Bush with their attacks on every possible front, but that seems to be their way. I disagree with much that the administration has brought on but it is ludicrously deceptive to attack the secrecy issue with such zest as the left does. It is reflective of their defeatism for this or any other war. The fallacy of these attacks is the fact that there have been zero cases of any form of intimidation of our citizens for the seven years we've had the Patriot Act. I do challenge you to present one. Would the left like to say that their party would not have enacted some similar form of control over terrorist activity if they were in power? But then, they just may do that, being trapped by their own tirades against secrecy of any kind while the Republicans were at the helm. Do they dare say the Democrats have no history of secrecy in wartime? There are many such occurrences, including the FDR order to not reveal the number of deaths during World War II operations, and would anyone really dare to say that the Democrats did not then have secret operations. How dare they make plans concerning an enemy and not tell us all about it? ...more

December 4, 2007

Amy Gorman, author of "Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105," will speak at the SouthShore Regional Library, 15816 Beth Shields Way, at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. ...more

November 29, 2007

Amy Gorman, author of "Aging Artfully: 12 Profiles of Visual and Performing Women Artists 85-105," will speak at the SouthShore Regional Library, 15816 Beth Shields Way, at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 6. She will show clips of filmmaker Greg Young's movie, "Still Kicking," based on her book. ...more

November 26, 2007

As University of South Florida officials work toward their goal of national prominence, they will have to do so without their sought-after second-in-command. ...more

October 16, 2007

SARASOTA They call it the city of the arts, but it could just as easily be the city of the eats. ...more

October 4, 2007

An 80-year-old Port Richey man has traveled the world because "I wanted to see how other people lived." ...more

October 3, 2007