TAMPA (and almost every other town in America) - When you pull on the door and it's locked, don't panic. ...more

February 26, 2008

TAMPA (and almost every other town in America) - When you pull on the door and it's locked, don't panic. ...more

February 25, 2008

Our county government is a mess. They change committees to suit their agenda. If the results are not to their paradigm, they change the rules or committees. Example, they first decided that a new "CEO" a.k.a. county administrator, should be hired after his or her staff has been hired. What a colossal error. I can only think of one reason for this. They wanted to be sure that their special people were promoted to these higher-paying jobs. But when the committee sent the second selection of the new directors' jobs, they were not all that happy. So they just changed the rules and the next ones will be a group of finalists. ...more

February 20, 2008

Shortages of food for the poor and hungry is becoming so severe a local food bank has contemplated raising its own crops. The Volunteer Way, on Congress Street in New Port Richey, is scheduled to meet Monday night with officials of a church in the area which has several acres of land, Lester Cypher, CEO of the Volunteer Way, said today. ...more

February 11, 2008

General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner urged a group of auto dealers Saturday to lobby against individual states trying to set their own limits on greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

February 10, 2008

Robert Crews III has an interesting deal for Highlands County. The president and CEO of Crews Groves Inc. wants to trade an acre of beach frontage land on Lake Denton for the county-owned boat ramp on Lake Bonnett. Public access on the boat ramp for popular Lake Denton has been closed for months while a committee tries to figure out how best to use the lake. This land would give the county much more room for parking and public use. This all sounds intriguing, but one thing we cannot give up is public access to Lake Bonnett to achieve it on Lake Denton. We understand that this access is important to the Crews and their real estate investment on Lake Bonnett. ...more

January 11, 2008

TAMPA - The on-again, off-again Trump Tower Tampa is in limbo — again. Local developer, SimDag LLC, told buyers in October that it was close to getting financing, but only if Donald Trump would drop his lawsuit against the company. ...more

January 3, 2008

PORT RICHEY – Doug Winton has joined Republic Bank as Florida market president. ...more

January 2, 2008

The reaction was swift from those who read to the end of last Sunday's column on the profound change in health care, as seen through the deaths of two dads. ...more

December 30, 2007

Tampa without grouper sandwiches? It may be as unthinkable as Philadelphia without cheesesteaks and New Orleans without muffalettas. But in 2007, it actually happened. With Florida-caught grouper in short supply last summer, some eateries – including the iconic Columbia Restaurant – took the fish off the menu. Others turned grouper from a regular feature into a special item or notified diners they get another fish as a substitute. ...more

December 25, 2007