Monday July 14th, 2025 3:41PM

Ken Stanford

Contributing Editor
Ken  Stanford
Watts named secretary general of IPC; group warns of higher prices for poultry
George Watts, who retired last year as president of the National Chicken Council (NCC), has been named secretary general of the International Poultry Council (IPC).
10:27AM ( 12 years ago )
The 'blues' are coming to Gainesville
The Labor Day weekend in Gainesville this year will include a blues festival to be held at the Fair Street Neighborhood Center.
10:03AM ( 12 years ago )
Special operators to anti-Obama groups: Zip it
A group of retired special operations and CIA officers who claim President Barack Obama revealed secret missions and turned the killing of Osama bin Laden into a campaign centerpiece are coming under criticism from some of their own.
9:33AM ( 12 years ago )
Romney pushes on with discredited welfare attacks
Mitt Romney claims he's got a winner with his criticism that President Barack Obama is giving welfare recipients a free ride. Never mind that aspects of his argument against the Democrat are factually inaccurate.
9:29AM ( 12 years ago )
Report accuses general of lavish travel, spending
The four-star general who headed U.S. Africa Command used military vehicles to shuttle his wife on shopping trips and to a spa and billed the government for a refueling stop overnight in Bermuda, where the couple stayed in a $750 suite, a Defense Department investigation has found.
9:19AM ( 12 years ago )
Court: Texas can cut off Planned Parenthood funds
A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that Texas can cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics that provide health services to low-income women before a trial over a new law that bans state money from going to organizations tied to abortion providers.
9:28PM ( 12 years ago )
Obama criticizes Romney over college assistance
President Barack Obama accused rival Mitt Romney of being oblivious to the burdens of paying for college on Tuesday, telling young voters in battleground Ohio that his opponent's education policies amount to nothing more than encouraging them to tap their parents for money or "shop around" for the best deal.
9:22PM ( 12 years ago )