As promised, federal authorities have amped up criminal mortgage fraud prosecutions. ...more

November 3, 2009

Hotel and motel tax collections in Hillsborough County continued to decline in June, falling 21.4 percent compared with year-ago figures to about $1.2 million. ...more

August 7, 2009

Hillsborough County's hotel room supply rose 8.1 percent in March to nearly 22,000 compared with a year ago, but demand was down 9.3 percent to 419,248 rooms sold, a report by Smith Travel Research of Hendersonville, Tenn., showed. ...more

May 11, 2009

Citing the economy, Tampa's oldest automobile dealership, Ferman, has halted new car sales and repairs at its Plant City location but will continue to sell used vehicles there. ...more

March 17, 2009

A lot of good people around here are searching for ways to stimulate the economy. What our economy needs, and what the national economy needs, have some things in common and quite a few differences. What we really need is getting some construction moving. ...more

March 12, 2009

Today, Rikelle Purcell is the face of unemployment. Purcell was working at Authorized TV in Blairsville, Ga., but she moved to Sebring, hoping to find a better job. She wound up with more of the same: here, she's an office manager for Appliance Hospital, handling customer telephone calls, scheduling service calls, routing service trucks. ...more

March 9, 2009

The Tampa Bay Lightning are slashing season-ticket prices by an average of 10 percent for next season, with almost 4,000 seats available at the St. Pete Times Forum for only $239. ...more

February 27, 2009

The Tampa Bay Lightning are slashing season-ticket prices by an average of 10 percent for next season, with almost 4,000 seats available at the St. Pete Times Forum for only $239. ...more

February 26, 2009

Single-Payer Health Care The USA must join the modern world by establishing health as a right of the population. Our weak, wasteful and convoluted method places America at greater competitive risk without a single-payer health system. ...more

February 23, 2009

Jeremy Graves is ready to dent some metal. By day, he loads twisted vehicles onto the tow truck he drives for Stepp's Towing Service. ...more

February 21, 2009