The nation struggled with slow economic growth and still-high prices that are weighing on consumers and businesses alike as the race for the White House kicks into high gear. ...more

September 4, 2008

Thrust into the role of financial firefighter, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has taken unprecedented steps over the past year to battle the nation's worst credit and financial crises in decades. ...more

August 21, 2008

Worried about rising inflation, Federal Reserve officials at their meeting in June thought the Fed's next move on interest rates was likely to be up. ...more

July 17, 2008

Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. shares slid Thursday as continued credit fears shook Wall Street, and government officials again reiterated that no bank is too big to fail. ...more

July 11, 2008

WellCare Health Plans Inc. has named Jonathan Rich, former general counsel and chief compliance officer at health insurer Aveta Inc., as the Tampa company's senior vice president and chief compliance officer. ...more

July 9, 2008

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place. ...more

May 19, 2008

Words may fail, but art does not. Or so says Seattle artist Robert Blehert, who will paint mothers' "essence" using flowers at the Art on the Docks art gallery in Tarpon Springs today and tomorrow, May 10 and May 11. This will mark Blehert's second time doing the portraits at the gallery after appearing there on Mother's Day 2007. ...more

May 10, 2008

The 1980 comedy "How to Beat the High Cost of Living" starred Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin and Jessica Lange as friends who scheme to steal cash from a giant money ball at the mall. ...more

January 20, 2008

When cold and flu season strikes, auto-shop manager Todd Meredith's hands may end up in an engine to get a customer's car back on the road. The commissioner of the Central Virginia Basketball Officials Association, Ed Smith, may be forced to send fewer officials to a high school game. Health-care workers dedicated to patient care may have to be told to go home. ...more

January 20, 2008

OPENING Cassandra's Dream (not reviewed) A pair of financially strapped brothers (Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell) turn to crime, but turn against each other when things go badly. From director Woody Allen. 108 minutes (PG-13; mature themes, sexual material and brief violence) ...more

January 17, 2008