Friday the 13th certainly seems to be an appropriate date to share scary stories about the downtrodden economy. Yet local business leaders hope the Pasco Economic Summit, slated for Friday, March 13, will begin to dispel some of the financial gloom with ideas to spur a recovery here. ...more

March 11, 2009

Clyde Bracknell has always managed to stay above the fray. He always let people have their say. He avoided controversy, and he stuck to his convictions. And after nearly 30 years in office, he will retire from the politics with far more friends than enemies. ...more

February 12, 2009

Teen pregnancies increased 7 percent in Florida from 2005 to 2006, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The state had the 17th highest rate of teen births among the states. ...more

January 8, 2009

Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. ...more

January 7, 2009

New claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, the government said Wednesday. ...more

December 25, 2008

In the 26 years since the weekly radio address became a White House staple, presidents have often treated the speech to the nation as a task rather than an opportunity. ...more

December 15, 2008

Food allergies in American children seem to be on the rise, now affecting about 3 million kids, according to the first federal study of the problem. ...more

October 22, 2008

When the history is written on the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it will go down in the annals of corporate scandals as one of the greatest accounting scams committed in broad daylight. ...more

September 10, 2008

Similar to America's addiction to oil, the PGA has an insatiable craving all its own. Sure, the links version isn't polluting the atmosphere or cause for civil strife. Nor is it making families around the globe suffer, but it is an obsession none the less. ...more

July 19, 2008

Usually by now, fans of the Tampa Bay Rays are gearing up for the Bucs' training camp because another losing baseball season has been assured. But not this year, and we're not talking fantasy baseball either. ...more

July 18, 2008