Adkins: CPR Gives County A Fighting Chance We have two major issues in Hernando County that are hindering the road to economic recovery: home foreclosures and rising unemployment. We can all debate until we are blue in the face whose fault it is. Unscrupulous lenders, overdevelopment, Wall Street, borrowers in over their head, a culture of over reliance of credit. ...more

February 22, 2009

Hundreds of workers at the St. Pete Times Forum got an unwelcome surprise Friday morning when they picked up their paychecks: ...more

February 14, 2009

Hundreds of workers at the St. Pete Times Forum got an unwelcome surprise this morning when they picked up their paychecks: Included was a note from management saying it won't offer free employee parking starting March 1. ...more

February 13, 2009

The election is history. The oaths of office have been taken. From Pasco County all the way to Washington, D.C., we have new representatives to help lead us into the future. Our work as Americans is done until the next round of elections, right? ...more

February 4, 2009

Water management district officials might sound like a broken record, but their mantra is true. Florida is in the middle of a serious drought. This precious resource is in short supply at the moment and it may only get worse. While it can seem unfathomable that a peninsula would face a drought, it's the reality of living in this state. ...more

January 28, 2009

The bailout bill has cost us too much already. At a time when the country is in debt into the trillions of dollars, the addition of a few hundred billion is not going to exacerbate our problems is it? Or is it? We already owe our soul to the foreigners. ...more

November 28, 2008

Sue Martin does her best to be a dutiful and loving daughter. So when her 84-year-old mother finally retired from a family electronics business - at age 82 - Martin bought the small three-bedroom ranch house next door to her own home in Claymont, Del., and moved her mother in. ...more

October 19, 2008

Strategy was almost as important as speed Saturday as Scott Dixon won the pole for the Indianapolis 500 with a big gamble by his Target Chip Ganassi Racing team. ...more

May 11, 2008

Gentlemen, start your offers. Whatever bastion of hope, whatever thin strand of thread and whatever aspirations have been discussed, grim reality might finally have set in Tuesday night. ...more

January 30, 2008

Road points have been as easy to find for Tampa Bay this season as a poolside sunbather would have been on a snowy New Year's Day. ...more

January 2, 2008