Consumers are enjoying the lowest retail gasoline prices in years, a welcome ray of light in an ever-darkening economic picture. ...more

December 21, 2008

U.S. Rep. John Mica said he came to Tampa on Tuesday to encourage local officials to get in line for transportation money that soon will flow from Washington. ...more

November 26, 2008

U.S. Rep. John Mica said he came to Tampa today to encourage local officials to get in line for transportation money that soon will flow from Washington. ...more

November 25, 2008

Leaders of Sen. John McCain's campaign are looking toward "527s" as their principal means of attacking Sen. Barack Obama because they have been given a green light by McCain. ...more

June 23, 2008

All of the talk among political candidates about a federal gas tax holiday to offset soaring prices at the pump misses a critical fact: state taxes are, for the most part, even more costly for drivers. ...more

June 9, 2008

A Temporary Bromide All three U.S. senators running for the presidential nominations of their parties pledge to not have "business as usual" if they are elected. However, both John McCain and Hillary Clinton have proposed the suspension of the federal gasoline tax sometime through the summer of 2008. ...more

May 10, 2008

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Sen. Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs. ...more

May 3, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the likely presidential nominee sought to stem the public's pain from a troubled economy. ...more

April 16, 2008