Angie Humbarger was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the middle of five children. Her father worked for Ford Motor Company and her mother raised children and poodles. Angie has a love of the water, which comes from her father, who was a fan of boating, water skiing, and fishing.

Angie went to nursing school in Cincinnati. She met her future husband, Jeff, when they were both students doing pediatric rotations. When asked how they had had time to actually get to know each other,

Angie laughed and said, “I have no idea how we managed it.”  
Their first date was at a baseball game, since they are both Reds fans. One of their conversations that day centered on her not wanting to have kids.

BY DR. ROSEMARY BOWLER - Education in our public schools has been widely criticized for many perceived failures, such as: Lack of clear direction; hazy, contradictory aims; deterioration of standards of instruction; failure to achieve democratic values; and over-permissiveness and lack of discipline.

These specific criticisms, however relevant they may be today, were in fact made over 50 years ago in a report of the National Society for the Study of Education. Last Friday, a group of panelists looked at the current condition of our schools, underscored the complexities of educational reform and warned against “silver bullet” solutions and “one-size-fits-all” answers.

BY LIZA STROUT - Two years ago it was retrofitting openings and installing hurricane shutters. Everyone with a home valued over $750,000 was required to update to Miami-Dade standards to keep their Citizens’ insurance coverage.

This year, Citizens’ Property Insurance, the state’s “insurer of last resort,” has announced that they will not be renewing windstorm policies and multiperil policies that include wind coverage on homes valued over $1 million.

According to Italiano and Citizens’ Insurance, it has been common knowledge that the insurer has been attempting to reduce the number of polices, but the first that anyone, even those in the insurance business, heard of this latest plan was Friday the 13, when a memo went out.

MARCY SHORTUSE - At the Thursday, Jan. 12 meeting of the Gasparilla Island Bridge Authority, one consistent fact shone through in the financial discussions: Let’s get input from the public on how to get more money.

This meeting was an open dialogue on cost oversight, as well as alternative financing. Another meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 26 from 12:30 to 3:30 at the Boca Grande Community Center Auditorium to obtain public input, which will enable the board to make the hard decisions that will, hopefully, have positive results for all.