With the seemingly endless stream of news about job cuts in recent weeks, you may be wondering about your own job security. How would you get by if you were suddenly out of work? ...more

November 22, 2008

My wife and I are 65. I work full time and my wife, part time. We'd like to sell our house because it's too big for us. But we know this is not a good time, so we're waiting for the market to improve. In the meantime, we're paying an extra $500 a month on our mortgage. We have a balance of $155,000, and the house was appraised at $240,000 in March. ...more

November 9, 2008

The Tampa Port Authority board approved on Tuesday the transfer of a property lease to GreenHunter Energy Inc., which plans to build a biodiesel fuels plant at the port. ...more

October 22, 2008

Dear Editor: In 2007, the Florida Legislature amended section 393.0661, Florida Statues, to implement a four-tiered waiver system to serve clients with developmental disabilities in the DD and Family and Supported Living Waivers. ...more

October 19, 2008

More than 40 employers are expected to participate in Hillsborough County's Career Connections Job Fair on Thursday. ...more

October 15, 2008

Enrollment at Hillsborough Community College's new SouthShore campus is way above projections. In fact, it is about 10 times the estimate. ...more

October 13, 2008

A man's death from a stroke in May has sparked a tug-of-war over whether to keep an advanced life support ambulance in upscale Lutz or transfer it to Progress Village, a much poorer community with many more calls for ambulance service. ...more

October 12, 2008

Please allow me to respond to a letter in Thursday's paper (Oct. 9) regarding Sheriff Benton. The writer seems to think that our sheriff is rude and uncaring because she didn't take time to speak with him about free Spanish lessons he was offering the deputies back in January 2007. He stated that he was a part-time resident, so he might not have known that at that particular time, one of our brave state troopers, Sgt. Sottile, had been brutally murdered. Maybe if he had known that, he might realize that the sheriff was busy trying to catch a cop killer. It is possible that his generous offer was somehow forgotten in the process. ...more

October 11, 2008

EBay Inc. is eliminating 1,600 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force. The online auction site operator will cut 1,000 full-time employees and let several hundred temporary and part-time workers go. It will also leave some open positions unfilled. ...more

October 7, 2008

If the Internet is the information superhighway, one of its roads led straight to a Tampa guitarist. ...more

October 5, 2008