Florida Sex Offender Building Real Estate Empire
Registered sex offender Randy Young is building a small real estate empire in central Florida thanks to laws restricting where registered sex offenders may live. Young owns seven properties and manages two dozen more that he rents to offenders. His enterprise is known as “Habitat for Sex Offenders.” “When I first got out and tried [...]
The New Reality of Television
I like Ghost Hunters. Really. For those of you who may not know, it’s a campy little show on SciFi that has a couple of plumbers from RotoRooter fronting an organization called ‘TAPS”… doing investigations of haunted places. In the show, they travel around the country trying to find ghosts… and sometimes they find things [...]
Crenshaw: Empty Promises vs. Real Solutions
America has the highest quality health care of any country in the world, but when millions of Americans can’t afford it and are left on the outside looking in, we’ve got a crisis. If cost and access are the two roots of the crisis, proposed reform must speak to both. I’ve been listening to Floridians. [...]
Editorial – Louis Rose: I Want to Live in a City…
Mayor John Peyton has been fighting a battle with the people of Jacksonville over his irrational desire to raise taxes during a recession. The overwhelming majority of taxpayers don’t want a tax increase and he knows it, and doesn’t care. He has inundated the City with statistics and graphs that are half-truths, easily discernible by [...]
The Pleasures of Grilling Corn
To me, corn speaks of summer more eloquently than just about any other vegetable, golden like the sun and bursting with the season’s sweetness. When corn is at its peak, as it is right now, there’s no end to the ways you can use it. In our restaurants, we’ll scrape the raw kernels from the [...]
Woods Takes Buick Open For Final Ride
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Tiger Woods wasn’t dominant, but he was good enough to win the Buick Open on Sunday in what might be the final staging of the tournament. Woods shot 69 to finish 20 under par at Warwick Hills Country Club to beat Roland Thatcher (64), Greg Chalmers (68) and John Senden [...]
Texting and Tweeting Instead of Living
Fran Stover sent out an electronic “It’s a boy!” birth announcement, complete with picture, when she upgraded to a burgundy BlackJack II from Samsung in March. She nicknamed “him” Jack. When she knew she wouldn’t have access to him for a spell, she worried about hurting his feelings and wondered if she should hire a [...]
In Afghanistan, A Battle to Win Confidence
HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Garrett sprints through a cloud of smoke and dust raised by the blast from a buried bomb. Somewhere nearby he hears a Marine cry out: “Casualties! Casualties!” Garrett arrives at the outer wall of a housing compound and finds some of his men sprawled on the ground. [...]
Lone Tenants in Florida High-Rise Seek Exit
Victor Vangelakos and his family never have to worry about noisy neighbors in their luxury condo on the Caloosahatchee River. There are no neighbors. Vangelakos, 45, his wife, Cathy, and their three children are the only residents in the 32-story Oasis I condo on the east edge of downtown Fort Myers. The Weehawken, N.J., firefighter [...]
Dealers Applaud Clunkers Program
David Hersrud’s small Chevrolet dealership in Sturgis, S.D., had shriveled so much from lack of customers this year that he was considering selling some of his inventory to other dealers at wholesale. “We were getting a little nervous,” he says. Then the federal cash-for-clunkers program kicked in July 24, and Hersrud did a month’s worth [...]
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