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

February 12, 2009

Brett Favre swears this is the real deal - no more last-minute comebacks. ...more

February 12, 2009

Heavy groundwater pumping to irrigate crops during recent cold snaps might be to blame for a half-dozen recent sinkholes that have closed roads in the Plant City area, Hillsborough County officials say. ...more

February 11, 2009

In its recent anniversary issue, the New Yorker magazine took a look at the state of affairs here in Florida. Apparently there is nothing amiss in the Empire State worthy of note. So it declares things here a real mess, thanks to the collapse of the real estate market. While it told of some foreclosure hardship tales from southwestern Florida, the ground zero of the devastation, according to the New Yorker, is good old Pasco County. ...more

February 11, 2009

Joel Toro of Tampa thought he was set for life. Then the phone rang last month. ...more

February 6, 2009

An album of songs about a tawdry night out doesn't suggest grand ambitions on Franz Ferdinand's part - what else have they ever written about, really? - but at least it's something they probably know well. ...more

February 6, 2009

On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left. ...more

February 4, 2009

Two unfortunate counterparts to democracy are greed and corruption. Rush Limbaugh has said that the salaries and perks extended corporate executives are none of the people's business. This is one of the few areas where he and I part company. I wonder if the recent near-collapse of our economy has changed his thinking. When business failures result in government bailouts, that cost is passed to taxpayers. Excessive salaries often result in stockholders being cheated. These consequences of poor and careless management alone place executives' salaries and perks in the public domain. ...more

January 31, 2009

The company that runs the county jail is being sued on allegations that inattention to an inmate's "serious medical needs" led to his death. ...more

January 29, 2009

The inquiry continued Tuesday into the collapse of a ceiling at a Tampa International Airport parking garage early Monday morning, but the cause still has not been determined, an airport official said. ...more

January 28, 2009