Tradition requires President-elect Barack Obama to give his top supporters a big party on Inauguration Day. Unfortunately, the nation's business owners and laid-off workers are in no party mood, whether they voted for him or not. ...more

January 18, 2009

You can get a rough estimate of the calories you will expend in many activities with a simple formula developed by physiologists using a yardstick known as the Metabolic Equivalent, or MET. ...more

January 17, 2009

Good Care In Canada Here we go again, knocking Canada's Health Care. (Thomas Sowell, "Health Care Frauds," Jan. 10) ...more

January 13, 2009

"A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East - From the Cold War to the War on Terror," by Patrick Tyler (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) ...more

January 11, 2009

What do you do on a day when the weather stinks and you're tempted to fold into a cocoon and order mounds of Chinese food? ...more

January 10, 2009

Is it time for conservatives to give up our fight against Big Government? ...more

January 5, 2009

$2 trillion Amount the national debt is expected to increase this year 40 percent ...more

January 5, 2009

Highlands County plans to request $29.7 million from President Obama's economic stimulus package. ...more

January 4, 2009

that would be those who are not at this point staring into space, wondering why they were reading this eight seconds ago - may recall last week's column, Scott's Super Powerful Year in Preview 2009, Part I. ...more

January 4, 2009

67 Percent of Americans polled by the Washington Post-ABC News highlighting the economy as the top priority for Obama and the next Congress ...more

January 4, 2009