These are not broken, just broke: Post office, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FDIC and Amtrak, just name a few. ...more

March 17, 2010

A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of putting paper clips in patients' mouths during root canals, then billing Medicaid for the stainless steel posts he should have used. ...more

March 16, 2010

Ask your congressmen where in the Constitution it says the government must provide health care to the citizenry. When you look at the programs that the government now runs, you get a dismal picture. These programs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the U.S. Post Office and Amtrak, all run by the government have one thing in common. They are all broke. With this track record, I think the new so-called health care reform program the Congress is determined to force on us, is destined to be just another miserable expense for the taxpayers. ...more

March 16, 2010

Your editorial, "The president's Chicagoland power play," (Our Opinion, March 5), stated that "fully half the country" does not support the health care reform bill. This statement is only partly true. ...more

March 14, 2010

A divided Congress, bending to special interests, uses thousands of words discussing conflicting plans for health care reform without reaching a decision. ...more

March 12, 2010

The Senate may have averted a Medicare predicament on Wednesday. Over the fiscal objections of Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., the Senate passed a sweeping bill that cleaned up a host of unfinished congressional business from last year, including extending unemployment benefits. ...more

March 12, 2010

The U.S. Senate has just voted 62-36 for a bill that would extend emergency stimulus funding for state Medicaid programs through June 2011. ...more

March 10, 2010

As state economists confirmed the $3.2 billion shortfall that Florida is facing next year, a bill advanced in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that could shrink Florida's budget gap by one-third. ...more

March 10, 2010

Are you worried about losing unemployment benefits? If Republicans in U.S. Senate don't vote to extend unemployment benefits, 50,000 Floridians will not get their weekly checks, beginning this month. ...more

March 9, 2010

The figures are preliminary, but the forecast for Pasco County's 2010-11 budget is grim. ...more

March 3, 2010