Bids are coming in for widening Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in Wesley Chapel, and they have dropped significantly since 2007. ...more

March 5, 2009

January's collapse of a canopy in Tampa International Airport's parking garage was likely caused by the failure of a steel beam's connections to handle movement caused by temperature changes, an engineering firm has reported. ...more

March 3, 2009

January's collapse of a canopy in Tampa International Airport's parking garage was likely caused by the failure of a steel beam's connections to handle movement caused by temperature changes, an engineering firm has reported. ...more

March 2, 2009

Comrade Greenspan wants us to seize the economy's commanding heights. ...more

February 24, 2009

General Motors Corp.'s Swedish-based subsidiary Saab went into court protection from creditors Friday so the unit can be spun off or sold by its struggling U.S. parent, officials said. ...more

February 21, 2009

For years there was an annual late-summer rite that occurred all around Florida. The local sheriff, in good economic times or bad, would suggest in a public fashion the bad guys were winning the upper hand and the sheriff's agency needed more money to put extra personnel and equipment on the street to take back the initiative. These days, however, Pinellas Sheriff Jim Coats is cutting spending in response to the drop in revenue the county is experiencing as a result of the collapse of the Florida housing industry and the nationwide economic recession. ...more

February 21, 2009

Thousands of boaters might have to settle for fewer fishing spots after Hillsborough County Public Works officials issue a stern warning against boaters going under the dilapidated Friendship TrailBridge. ...more

February 18, 2009

America must recognize the fact that Mexico is in collapse. It is controlled by war lords just as China was in the early 1900s. The last 60 years have been very trying and costly for the United States. It has been a highway for illegal drugs and illegal movement of people into the United States, from all over the world. We have troops on the ground all around the world to help those nations from killing each other, yet we are ignoring our neighbor to the south whose death rate is not acceptable; in fact, it is reaching into the United States. ...more

February 14, 2009

A Florida Congresswoman is calling out Forbes magazine for including Miami in its list of Top 10 Most Miserable Cities in the country. ...more

February 13, 2009

The Clearwater company that designed and built a concrete and steel ceiling that collapsed inside a Tampa International Airport parking garage has agreed to pay for restoring the canopy, officials said Thursday. ...more

February 13, 2009