The headline is in red and all caps: STOP LAKELAND FROM ADOPTING LIBERAL, WASTEFUL SAN FRANCISCO STYLE VALUES – ACT TODAY! That’s the headline above a letter recently addressed “Dear fellow...

May 3, 2012 Dear Commissioners: Today I urge your support of extending city benefits to same-sex partners. I would also like to commend the Commission as a whole for your sober, careful, and respectful approach to this...

It appears the Lakeland City Commission will hold a vote of sorts on whether to allow same sex employees to include their committed partners on the city’s health insurance policy and other basic benefits enjoyed by...

Back in 2010, before Marshall Goodman came under investigation for his expensive taste in Star Wars toys and general incompetence, the ex-USFP poobah hired former Polk County Commissioner Jack Myers to a $50,000-per-year...

Wade Gaynor drove in three runs with two singles to lead Lakeland to a 6-4 win over Daytona on Sunday. Gaynor drove in a pair of runs in a three-run fourth for Lakeland and added a RBI-single in the sixth. Tyler Collins...

Let’s just recap for a second: A rogue senator from Lake Wales or Winter Haven or wherever’s he from managed to cower virtually everyone outside of Lakeland into accepting an unaccredited, unloved, unbuilt...

The Ledger tells me that Paul Doering, professor emeritus at the University of Florida school of Pharmacy, is a consultant for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). If that’s true, it confirms everything I’ve come...

Editor’s Note: We welcome guest commentary from Lakelanders. Terry Brigman takes a moment to reflect on his personal beliefs… No, I don’t want you to avoid me because you think I am a “Jesus...

I’ve been very busy at work and peddling my Age of Barbarity wares, so I apologize for the absence. I probably shouldn’t do this, but I just noticed a couple of really instructive comments from Skeptical...

THE FLYING TIGERS (3-0, 2011 Season: 64-74) … At 3-0 on the year, Lakeland is the only undefeated team in the North Division (Charlotte is the only team in the South without a loss). The Flying Tigers scored 17 runs in...

I received a heads up late Wednesday afternoon from City Manager Doug Thomas that city staff will update commissioners on the results of their survey of nearby local governments that have adopted same sex benefits for...

The Great Migration, the mass emigration of black men and women out of the South between roughly 1915 and 1960, is one of the most significant American upheavals of the 20th Century. As an historical development that...

A frequent commenter of ours has become obsessed with which racial box George Zimmerman checks on Census forms. To him, it seems to unravel the point of my Trayvon article from a few days ago. I think he thinks the point of...

On Saturday, February 23, 1923, in downtown Gainesville, a black man named Arthur Johnson shot and killed a white road construction worker named Hugh Cross. Johnson and another man had passed Cross on a sidewalk,...