Family Firms Share Secret to Balance
It’s all relative… Gathering with family during the holidays can be trying enough – and that’s without your slightly overbearing older sister as your boss. Or your workaholic uncle dissecting sales figures as you take a forkful of pecan pie. For the millions who work with relatives at family-owned firms, little separates the dining and [...]
Andrew Jackson’s Million-Dollar Face Lift
After almost two centuries of wear and tear, weather damage, gnawing insects and the footsteps of millions of passing tourists, Andrew Jackson’s home was ready for a face lift. Visitors to The Hermitage this holiday season will find the historic home wrapped in scaffolding with crews working to repair the damage of time, tornadoes and [...]
Does Notre Dame Football Matter Anymore?
Notre Dame fired football coach Charlie Weis on Monday. Names floated as possible successors include Florida’s Urban Meyer and Oklahoma’s Bob Stoops. They say they are staying put. Which makes sense: Those guys have better jobs already, don’t they? The key question in these parts isn’t only who will succeed Weis. It is also this: [...]
Two of Nation’s Best Defenses to Face Off
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida defensive coordinator Charlie Strong doesn’t try to dodge the issue. He realizes what the Gators have to do to beat Alabama on Saturday in the SEC Championship Game and make it to the BCS national title contest for the third time in four years. “(Defense) is going to be the whole [...]
Who’s Your Tiger?
Ten years ago, he first noticed it. A yellow ceiling stain. A water leak. Year after year it grew worse. Bigger. Darker. Sometimes during Sunday services he would glance up and wonder how much longer it had. Then one morning, in the spring of 2006, he came in after Bible study and saw plaster dust [...]
NMBA: Foreclosures Up in Florida and Nationally
The number of Florida homes in foreclosure or seriously behind in payments hit record highs during the quarter ending Sept. 30, the National Mortgage Bankers Association reported on Thursday. Florida had the dubious distinction of leading the nation in foreclosure inventory. It also ranked second in loan installments over 90 days late and fourth in [...]
Union Details How SunRail Support Got Derailed
With 500,000 members in Florida and strong ties to House and Senate Democrats, one of the state’s largest labor unions Monday blasted the Republican-led Legislature’s plans for a “union-busting” special session on rail issues. AFL-CIO President Mike Williams on Monday vowed to block attempts to approve the 61-mile commuter rail during a special session beginning [...]
U.S. Supreme Court to Examine Florida Beach Case
Florida’s sandy white beaches and the rights of property owners are colliding in a case pitting the two against each other before the U.S. Supreme Court later this week. At hand is the issue of whether the Florida Supreme Court stripped coastal property owners of their rights by upholding a state policy to rebuild miles [...]
Democrats Fear Losses in Mountain West
WASHINGTON – After making historic gains in the interior West in the last three elections, Democrats are bracing for expected losses in the region in 2010. Declining support for Democrats among the West’s crucial independent voters, combined with traditional losses for the president’s party in a mid-term election, will make next year especially tough for [...]
Woods Cancels on Golf, Police
Tiger Woods still won’t talk – and he won’t be playing any golf in the near future. Woods on Monday canceled his appearance at his Chevron World Challenge this week in Thousand Oaks, Calif., citing injuries from his early-morning car crash Friday. He said in a statement posted on his website that he was extremely [...]
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