The debate about the health care system's overhaul is filled with topics and terms unfamiliar to many. Each week, we'll examine some of the issues, the politics behind them and how they would affect consumers. ...more

October 25, 2009

Passenger traffic at Tampa International Airport declined 1.7 percent in August compared with a year ago, the best showing in the past 17 months as the recession's toll on business and leisure travel appears to be receding. ...more

September 15, 2009

Helped by a lightened debt load, Ford Motor Co. posted a surprise second-quarter profit of $2.3 billion Thursday, after the worst loss in company history a year earlier. Shares rose 9 percent in afternoon trading. ...more

July 24, 2009

Wal-Mart's supercenters continue to add food customers in Florida while other grocery chains are losing them, new data show. ...more

July 15, 2009

Southwest Airlines will add four nonstop flights from Tampa International Airport on Nov. 1, including the airline's first service to Milwaukee and additional flights between Tampa and Las Vegas, Buffalo, N.Y., and Manchester, N.H., which serves the Boston area. ...more

June 24, 2009

Internet advertising revenue is down 5 percent. The decline in the first quarter of 2009 represents the first year-over-year decline in seven years as the recession takes its toll even on the hardiest of ad sectors. ...more

June 6, 2009

Some companies are in the steel business, some are in the cookie business, but General Motors is in the restructuring business. For 30 years, GM has been restructuring itself toward long-term viability. ...more

April 1, 2009

The weaker retailers are tumbling toward bankruptcy as the recession continues. ...more

February 20, 2009

For the first time since the Great Depression, General Motors cannot call itself the world's largest automaker. Its sales fell behind Toyota in 2008, a year when GM celebrated its 100th anniversary and narrowly avoided a bankruptcy filing amid a significant downturn in the economy. ...more

January 22, 2009

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport reported a 1 percent decline in ridership in 2008, holding mostly steady thanks to a big surge in passengers for Allegiant Air and gains in Canadian traffic. ...more

January 15, 2009