Classroom seats are filling fast at Hillsborough Community College, a result of a tight economy that has sent workers back to school and forced several state universities to cut back their admissions. ...more

June 22, 2008

Expect to pay more for wastewater and trash pickup services within the next few years. ...more

June 11, 2008

TAMPA - Expect to pay more for wastewater and trash pickup services within the next few years. City officials have hinted at the possibility of rate increases before, and on Tuesday a top city administrator bluntly told the council he planned to propose a five-year rate plan by this time next year. ...more

June 10, 2008

If you can't beat it, tax it. That seems to be the axiom in New York these days, where Gov. Eliot Spitzer, struggling to close a $4.4 billion budget gap, has proposed making drug dealers pay taxes on their stashes of illegal drugs. The new tax would apply to cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and could be paid with pre-bought "tax stamps" affixed to the bags of dope. ...more

February 18, 2008

Wasteful spender or champion of fiscal restraint: GOP presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani accused one another of the former and claimed the latter Saturday. ...more

November 25, 2007

State senate leaders have agreed to adopt a plan to link college and university tuition increases annually to the rate of inflation, signaling a willingness by lawmakers to give up some power to set student costs. ...more

October 10, 2007

Florida officials decided four years ago that the state needed to do more with its transportation taxes than build highways. The railroads, they said, should get some of the money, too. ...more

September 19, 2007

Florida officials decided four years ago that the state needed to do more with its transportation taxes than build highways. The railroads, they said, should get some of the money, too. ...more

September 18, 2007

For years, the University of South Florida's efforts to recruit black students were failing. What resulted was a steady drop in the number of black freshmen at a school that touted its diversity. ...more

September 8, 2007