A year after the Zephyrhills Airport Authority spent $3,000 to audit the billing on its troubled T-hangar project, it recovered $825. ...more

March 3, 2010

The winner of the Gasparilla men's half marathon, Steve Curley, lives in Orlando, but when it comes to running in cold weather, as was the case during Sunday's race, the temperature was not a factor. ...more

March 1, 2010

The Zephyrhills Airport Authority has called a special workshop and meeting to deal with conflicting accounts of whether its engineering firm overbilled the city during a $2.8 million hangar expansion. ...more

February 20, 2010

How much longer does the city of Avon Park have to put up with the Community Redevelopment Agencies? Tax dollars are decreasing at both the city and county levels, and given that they're the source of funding for the CRA, it is time for them to be disbanded. The CRAs have strayed from their original mission, which was to "remove slum and blight." Now, their main concerns center around Oktoberfest, the Avon Park Christmas parade, a community theater, the Martin Luther King Jr. parade and Fourth of July activities. ...more

January 28, 2010

The Internal Revenue Service is lowering its 2010 standard driving mileage rate to 50 cents a mile from 55 cents a mile in 2009 for travelers who use personal vehicles for business. ...more

January 1, 2010

In the 1970s, the quality of automobiles declined; 100,000 miles was nearly the end of the road for a Ford Pinto or a Dodge Neon. ...more

December 30, 2009

The top 10 list for gas guzzlers for 2010 have come out; the bottom two are American, the rest are Japanese, British and German. Yes, Hummer made number 10 but was forgiven due to its unmatched off-road capabilities. No. 1 goes to the Porsche Cayenne. Now, why is the outcry against the Hummer not heard for the foreign cars? Nobody bad mouths the foreign cars for bad gas mileage like they do American cars. ...more

December 14, 2009

Who's the boss? I hope our local government officials read these letter as there are some serious issues at our county at all levels. ...more

December 11, 2009

Southwest Airlines is offering a sale through Thursday, with one-way fares as low as $25 between Tampa and Fort Lauderdale; $50 between Tampa and Birmingham, Ala.; $75 between Tampa and Philadelphia; and $100 between Tampa and Boston. ...more

October 28, 2009

Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled a more expensive and bigger hybrid-only model than its hit Prius, underlining the Japanese automaker's ambitions to make green technology more widespread. ...more

October 21, 2009