One of the leading controversies on the Sunday TV talk shows was the appropriateness of the government imposing limits on the executive compensation packages of those corporations which have been bailed out with tax funds. A moment's reflection on the fact that the taxpayer now stands in the place of the stockholder as the owner of these companies should be a sufficient justification for these limits. Stockholders, as the owners of a corporation, originally set the compensation of its officers and employees, but over the years, the officers and boards of directors, through a series of strategies, wrested control from the stockholders and, treating the companies as their own, set their own compensations without regard for the wishes of the true owners, the stockholders. Their view? If you don't like it, sell you stock. A board room "coup de corps!" ...more

October 27, 2009

BAYSHORE The city council gave its final approval to a high-rise condominium on Patriots Corner at Bayshore and Bay to Bay boulevards today. ...more

December 4, 2008

A new proposal for a condominium tower at Patriots Corner calls for a shorter building than the one rejected last year by city council but still needs a height waiver. ...more

August 20, 2008

Think of it as if you were kissing your sister or Aunt Mildred - on the lips - but this could actually be more satisfying because the prize is a new car. ...more

August 17, 2008

Barring a successful appeal, voters will not decide in November whether to create an elected county mayor position in Hillsborough County. ...more

August 2, 2008

The county mayor referendum has been struck from the November ballot, a circuit court judge ruled today. ...more

August 1, 2008

On March 1, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Chief William Nesmith was arrested by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office for a domestic violence felony, aggravated assault with a firearm. His wife of four months was the reporting victim. ...more

May 3, 2008

Faced with no choice but to follow the rulings of the courts, the Tampa City Council on Thursday begrudgingly issued approval for a much-debated Bayshore Boulevard condominium tower. ...more

December 21, 2007

This time, the ruling was only five lines long. In it, the 2nd District Court of Appeal all but put the kibosh on the city's hopes of keeping a condominium tower out of the Hyde Park Historic District. ...more

September 12, 2007