Consumer Confidence Tanks Confidence in the economy hit a record low in February as job were lost and retirement accounts shrank. ...more

February 25, 2009

The Manatee County Port Authority has approved Port Manatee's $750 million master plan for expansion over five decades, with the immediate focus on opportunities associated with the Panama Canal expansion scheduled to be completed in 2014. ...more

February 24, 2009

For years there was an annual late-summer rite that occurred all around Florida. The local sheriff, in good economic times or bad, would suggest in a public fashion the bad guys were winning the upper hand and the sheriff's agency needed more money to put extra personnel and equipment on the street to take back the initiative. In Pasco County over the decades there have been spirited battles between the sheriff of the moment and the County Commission, which under state law can make cuts in Sheriff's Office spending. ...more

February 21, 2009

The 2008-09 wrestling season appeared on the surface like a typical one for the Brandon High Eagles. They spent the season rolling over the competition, much the way they have done the past two-plus decades under longtime coach Russ Cozart. ...more

February 19, 2009

The St. Petersburg Times is closing its Dade City bureau in the Old City Hall building on Meridian Avenue. ...more

February 12, 2009

Community leaders for Westchase weren't happy to learn that a group of damaged trees along Linebaugh Avenue may not get replaced. ...more

February 11, 2009

Carol Carter, a veteran official of the Hillsborough County Republican Party, is resigning her post as result of a flap over a seemingly racist email joke she forwarded to friends. Carter is the third prominent local Republican in four months to be stung by controversy over emails with racial overtones. ...more

February 5, 2009

Call it the voice of the people, Port Richey style. After discerning the will of the people in a petition calling on them to authorize another referendum on doing away with Port Richey, City Council this week told City Attorney Michael Brannigan to draft an ordinance that would authorize a dissolution referendum. ...more

January 31, 2009

Households throughout Hillsborough County will be scouring boundary maps during the next several days now that the school board is preparing to sign off on plans that would shuffle thousands of students. ...more

January 24, 2009

Questions will fly in households throughout Hillsborough County during the next several days now that the school board is preparing to sign off on plans that would shuffle thousands of students. ...more

January 23, 2009