Privatization

The state human services agency is considering further changes in the way it processes food stamps that likely would cost some clients their benefits, agency chief Mitch Roob said Wednesday after lawmakers questioned him about the proposal. Roob,...

WINTER PARK Restructuring of youth programming at the Winter Park Community Center will be considered at 3:30 p.m. Monday by the City Commission. The proposed restructuring calls for the privatization of programs for youths 6 to 18 years old to the Boys &...

Last week brought one of the weirder public meetings I've seen. Finished in 22 minutes, no questions or discussion, just some transportation bureaucrats obliquely briefing other transportation bureaucrats about documents the public and media couldn't see....

by Jill Zuckman In a mailer entitled "an important union message," the AFL-CIO slams Sen. John McCain for being too rich to understand the importance of Social Security benefits: AFL-CIO mailer "McCain's worth...over $100 million... "He owns 10 houses......

Sun-Times Media Group Inc. swung to a loss in the second quarter as advertising and circulation revenue contracted, the company said late Thursday. The publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times said it is still seeking a buyer or considering going private,...

Senator John McCain has been complaining lately that the press isn't giving him enough attention, especially in comparison to his opponent Barack Obama. I think he may be right. When McCain was in the Middle East recently, he confused Shia and Sunni...

U.S. drug manufacturers are reaping a windfall from taxpayers because Medicare's privately administered prescription drug benefit program pays more than other government programs for the same medicines, a House committee charged in a report Thursday. The...

One business could snag a deal to sell auto tags in southern Broward County even though county officials wanted to spread the work to more companies. The county has struggled for three years to hire private firms to distribute license tags and decals...

Two Democratic political newcomers, Maria Jimenez and Samuel Lopez, will compete on Aug. 26 for the chance to wrest control of the State House District 101 seat from a Republican in the Republican-leaning district. Jimenez, an educator from Naples, and...

Attacking Obama's plan to fix Social Security by raising the cap on payroll taxes, McCain gets accused of favoring privatization. In NH yesterday and NJ today, McCain insists -- forcefully -- that it's not true. Except, the DNC comes up......

Al Gore claims (though I've found no evidence to back it up) that "good enough for government work" once implied that such work met the highest standards of excellence. Maybe. But in the U.S. Senate's kitchens, "good enough for government work" means...

SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE By Bill Graves I have a black-and-white photo, taken in 1956, of a truck making its way through the toll plaza on the Kansas Turnpike. The truck, emblazoned with the Graves Trucking logo, belonged to my father's...