Double vision [Times photo: Ron Thompson] Area fans should be seeing a lot of Burt Guinan the next three years. Or will that be Curt, his twin brother?

The Call of Home
A young woman starts a new life far from the familiar and finds out that home isn't a matter of where you've been, it's where you are.

Preserve manager leaving for new post
The head of Crystal River State Buffer Preserve will oversee a research reserve.

More trek to other counties for work
About 22 percent of Citrus workers commute across county lines for their jobs, compared with 17 percent in 1990, according to census data.

Jan Glidewell: From your bank to our economy, via Nigeria
I don't know why the brothers Bush don't use me as a resource more often.

Commentary: In between a rock and hard rules
Rules are rules.

Citrus digest: Coogler replaced on water district board
As he expected, Monroe "Al" Coogler was not reappointed to the governing board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Gov. Jeb Bush on Friday named a Brooksville woman, Judith C. Whitehead, as his successor. Coogler intended to serve one term but changed his mind at the end of his four-year stint. He said his reappointment chances were hurt by state Sen. Nancy Argenziano and by his support of the controversial Wysong Dam project. Argenziano, who criticized Coogler for not being receptive to the head of a local water group, recommended Kennedy Smith of Crystal River and Bill Connery of Sugarmill Woods. But Gov. Bush went with Whitehead, owner of Residential Appraisal Service.

Editorial: Watching the sideshow along route to toll road
Supporters of the Suncoast Parkway II project must be smiling these days. By a fluke, the opposition is being splintered by an intramural tempest over proposed routes, thereby diverting attention from the main question still to be answered: Is the toll road even necessary?

Letters: Residents want to make a difference
Editor: Over the years, depending on the issue, there have been letters from what is hopefully a small minority of residents in other communities implying, among other things, that Sugarmill Woods is a wealthy community of self-centered people who gain influence with the county and state through the use of pinstriped lawyers plus some other mystical type of clout ("pixie dust," one recent letter writer called it).