As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. A family of six in Avon Park, Fla., was kicked out of its home on a day when two of them should have been honored, reports Gary Pinnell of Highlands Today .

Let’s face it. It takes a lot of guts to put your neck out and launch a startup. It takes a lot of courage to walk into a major VC firm like Lightspeed or Spark Capital and ask for money

OK. Who knew that we had a $1 million cap on executive salaries? I have to assume those are wall street executive or maybe financial company executive salaries.) …and it led to the largest compensation increase for people effected by the cap in the history of the universe! Hmm

In his book, Outliers , Malcolm Gladwell makes a compelling case for the notion that the “self-made man” is a rare exception at best, but more often than not, a complete myth. Nowhere is this more true than in Hollywood. Several months ago I started working with a group of actors on what it takes to find consistent success in that vocation.

LOS ANGELES — After recasting executives at its faltering movie studio, The Walt Disney Co. is now switching up the roles of a couple of its high achievers. CEO Robert Iger said Thursday that Chief Financial Officer Tom Staggs, 49, will become chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.

CIT will not be around much longer if it emerges from bankruptcy without a more sustainable way to finance small businesses. More specifically, it must learn not to depend on the commercial paper market as an ubiquitous source to fund its lending activities. Additionally, it has to do a better job of laddering its bond obligations to match the term loans and lines of credit that it provides to companies.

The 60 Plus Association — the “conservative alternative” to the AARP — is launching a new advertising campaign against House Democrats who voted in favor of the party’s health care reform, accusing them of supporting a measure that would ultimately undercut Medicare. The Washington Post reports that the group will spend $1.5 million on TV ads targeting eight Democratic lawmakers from districts with high senior citizen populations. The ads, which will first air later this week, will feature Reps