It will be easy for the Tampa City Council to adopt a rule that would give local vendors priority when the city awards a contract. ...more

November 12, 2009

Will it be concrete block or steel? Or will the building be made out of a prefabricated concrete and constructed by a local company out of Brooksville? ...more

March 27, 2009

A local company is sponsoring workshops for troubled homeowners to teach them how to modify their home loans and save their houses from foreclosure. ...more

February 15, 2009

A local company is sponsoring workshops for troubled homeowners to teach them how to modify their home loans and save their houses from foreclosure. ...more

February 14, 2009

Aero Simulation Inc, a Tampa-based flight simulator design and manufacturing company, has won a $35 million subcontract and hired 25 employees to support development of an aircrew training system for the E-2D Hawkeye military early warning and control aircraft. ...more

January 27, 2009

A local company on the international sports stage for decades is changing the way triathletes measure success. ...more

November 25, 2008

Set up the pins, clear the lanes and try not to roll a gutter bird. ...more

November 24, 2008

First, I will give the current administration the benefit of the doubt. I can overlook the lost evidence and the cases that will subsequently be dropped. A few lucky criminals will get away. I can look past the deceit of the two different reports on the evidence audit. I will also look past the verbal abuse while in uniform of a county commissioner on a darkened parking lot. I can also overlook her other well documented explosive temper episodes, which have been reported widely. ...more

October 16, 2008

"The Geography of Love," by Glenda Burgess (Broadway Books, $22.95) ...more

September 7, 2008

The Highlands County commissioners approved in theory giving local contractors and vendors an advantage in getting county contracts on Tuesday. ...more

August 27, 2008