I see lots of complaints about different things but few solutions are offered. Here are a few answers that I think would help. First and foremost, the country must have a value-added tax. This would stop a lot of jobs from leaving the country and may even bring some back. Next, cut out all foreign aid. My guess is that 90 percent of it goes into foreign leaders pockets and doesn't do any good. ...more

January 14, 2009

Jury selection began Monday for the three trials on tap for this week. ...more

January 13, 2009

Hillsborough County deputies are working an attempted robbery at American Momentum bank, 15150 N. Florida Ave. ...more

January 5, 2009

A top adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that the country's slowing economy won't keep the new administration from fulfilling its plans for a middle-class tax cut. ...more

December 29, 2008

TAMPA Of all the shorts in Joshua Andrew Burnett's home, he grabbed the pair with drugs in the pockets when police surprised the naked man early today, an affidavit states. ...more

December 19, 2008

TAMPA Three teenagers are accused of robbing a Pizza Hut deliveryman at gunpoint, then ordering him to kneel in a closet while facing the wall, police said. Victor Maurice Tanner Jr., 19, Malcolm Rashad Hill, 19, and Frederick Wallace Reddick, 18, were held without bail today at the Orient Road Jail. Tampa police arrested them Wednesday on felony charges of armed robbery and kidnapping, records show. ...more

December 4, 2008

"Just After Sunset," by Stephen King (Scribner, $28) ...more

November 30, 2008

Christopher Ryan James, who everyone called "C.J," was crazy about his 2-month-old son, Christopher James Jr. ...more

November 29, 2008

BROOKSVILLE - A woman awakened by barking dogs Thursday morning interrupted a suspected burglar who bolted out the door and escaped in a pickup but was later caught, a report shows. ...more

November 15, 2008

Florida's Public Service Commission is torn by conflicting goals. The appointed board is trying to keep electric rates as low as possible during a year of rising fuel costs, yet it also wants the utilities it regulates to begin switching to renewable sources of energy, which at this point is more expensive than coal and natural gas. ...more

November 1, 2008