The financial squeeze on Americans got tighter over the past decade as housing expenses - everything from mortgage payments and rent, to utilities and insurance - far outpaced the growth in incomes, a new study shows. ...more

October 12, 2008

Proposing an amendment to the state Constitution to delete provisions authorizing the Legislature to regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition and real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship. ...more

October 12, 2008

He was looking at a 30 percent increase in commercial property taxes. ...more

October 4, 2008

As the economy has weakened and citizens have become weary of increased taxes, more pressure is being put on state governments to find "painless" alternatives to fund education, which accounts for the largest category of state expenditures. ...more

October 4, 2008

A recent editorial in this newspaper accused the governor and Legislature of engaging in a "con job" to trick citizens, and quoted local government officials cynically twisting the facts to cast blame for the lack of real property tax relief for Florida property owners. ...more

September 26, 2008

South Shore waterfront property owners must decide if they are willing to pay for a clear passage to Tampa Bay. ...more

September 24, 2008

Florida's continuing revenue shortfall - projected to be in the billions of dollars this year and next - is unprecedented. The partisan dispute over it is anything but. ...more

September 22, 2008

Residents in unincorporated Hillsborough County got a slight reduction in their property taxes Thursday night and the prospect of further reductions next year. ...more

September 19, 2008