An exciting initiative by Florida lawyers is being launched this week in conjunction with the American Bar Association's Celebration of Pro Bono. ...more

October 31, 2009

Tampa Housing Authority officials say the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development moved at record speed to get federal stimulus money out the door to local agencies. ...more

March 26, 2009

The Tampa Housing Authority will announce this morning how it will use $10.5 million in federal stimulus money. ...more

March 25, 2009

A proposed roll-back of Florida's growth-management rules wrongly assumes that more houses and apartments are all the state's urban areas need to become better places to live. City residents don't have to worry about how to pay for more roads or transit, according to the Community Renewal Act. ...more

February 21, 2009

Though hundreds of TV stations are turning off their analog signals next week, households in line for their $40 coupons for digital converter boxes are likely to have to wait at least several weeks longer. ...more

February 13, 2009

Many of Pasco's business and government leaders turned out last week perhaps hoping one of the Southeast's top bank economists had some words of hope for the county's struggling economy. Mark Vitner, senior economist of regional banker Wachovia, was the featured speaker at a luncheon held as part of the West Pasco Chamber of Commerce's Business Development Week. What he said underlines the county's failure over three decades to create an economy not almost totally dependent on housing construction and sales. ...more

February 4, 2009

Some of Tampa's finest houses need more than impeccable maintenance or discounting to sell in this economic environment. ...more

January 25, 2009

WASHINGTON - The number of new unemployment claims jumped more than expected last week, as companies continue to cut jobs at a furious pace and more Americans turn to an extended benefits program. ...more

January 22, 2009

Hillsborough County appears to have wasted $500,000 in studying the widening of a rural section of Lithia-Pinecrest Road southeast of Brandon that the county now says it has no intention of actually widening. ...more

January 11, 2009

Pasco County officials will search for ways to decrease the backlog of court cases which can leave jails crowded. ...more

December 20, 2008