William M. Hartnett

By DAVID SEDORE and WILLIAM M. HARTNETT
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
LANTANA - Carlos Cavanagh has a professional interest in the war in Iraq.
His company, Control Logistics of Lantana, makes most of the windows used on Army helicopters.
“When they land and throw up all that sand, I wonder how long my work is going to last,” [...]

This project was done almost entirely on night and weekends, sometimes until well past midnight, while my colleague Kathleen Chapman and I were both beat reporters in The Palm Beach Post’s Martin County bureau. We were flying so far under our editors’ radar back in those days that I was forced to cough up my [...]

By WILLIAM M. HARTNETT
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
A decade of unprecedented economic growth and racial diversification did little to change demographic disparities between people of different races across Florida and in Palm Beach County.
Blacks remain far less likely than whites to own their own homes, face a life expectancy six years less than the population [...]

By WILLIAM M. HARTNETT and MOLLY HENNESSY-FISKE
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
Lillie Knight and Marcy Proano work at the same school in northwest Fort Pierce.
Knight is black, a media aide at C.A. Moore Elementary.
Proano is white, a speech therapist.
At the end of the day, Knight heads to her nearby home at 18th Street and Avenue O, [...]