The East-West Shrine Game, an all-star college football showcase for NFL hopefuls that two weeks ago was close to finalizing a deal with Tampa, will announce Wednesday morning a move to Orlando beginning in 2010. ...more

March 31, 2009

No one would argue that interim City Manager Ellen Posivach has had her hands full since taking that position nearly three months ago. So busy, in fact, that it wasn't until the City Council's March 10 meeting that she got around to the small matter of being properly paid for the job she's been doing. Posivach presented an outline for a contract proposal at the meeting. While the Council agreed - for the most part - that she has been doing a fine job and the current terms of employment need to be reviewed, they decided a bit of negotiating was in order. ...more

March 18, 2009

It had to be done. For the sake of cutting costs and keeping with the future of fire and rescue response, eliminating the communications center in Spring Hill and reaching an interlocal agreement with the county was the best course of action, according to the majority of those on the fire board. ...more

February 27, 2009

A six-member jury has ruled against a Clearwater-based company accused of defrauding the owner of a crane company in Illinois by taking prepayment for a crane lease and giving nothing in return. ...more

November 17, 2008

University of South Florida athletic director Doug Woolard has revised the school's latest contract offer to football coach Jim Leavitt. The new deal increases the amount Leavitt would receive if fired from USF and also offers to decrease Leavitt's buyout. ...more

February 5, 2008

Your recent editorial in the Tribune concerning contract negotiations with the Tampa firefighters reported information that is inaccurate and misleading. The Tribune editorial, "By Demanding 10 Percent Raise, City Firefighters Insult Taxpayers" (Our Opinion, Dec. 14),claims "government unions have lost all sense of economic reality." ...more

December 19, 2007

The police union is upset with Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee because he won't go along with its contract proposal. But you won't see anything about its demand for raises of up to 10 percent in the union's brochures or ads attacking the sheriff. ...more

December 6, 2007

Zephyrhills' David Reutimann is one driver who wishes NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow wasn't making its super speedway debut this weekend at Talladega. He had a very good run in the old car in Talladega's spring race, climbing into the top five when his engine expired in the closing laps. In this week's edition of his Tampa Tribune diary, Reutimann says he doesn't expect his COT Toyota to be as competitive. ...more

October 4, 2007