After a slow start, the Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says. ...more

November 10, 2009

Fueled by government stimulus, the economy grew last quarter for the first time in more than a year. The question now is, can the recovery last? ...more

October 30, 2009

Sen. Ronda Storms successfully advanced a proposal Wednesday to change which companies would qualify for Gov. Charlie Crist's small-business loan initiative. ...more

January 8, 2009

You don't make a fortune teaching art to children, but Tony Capobianco counts himself lucky nonetheless that he was able to break into the business. ...more

November 5, 2008

Officials of the Highlands County Library System went to the county commission Tuesday to get approval to hire a bill collection agency to go after unpaid fees and fines. ...more

August 6, 2008

Highlands County commissioners gave the county library system the go-ahead to sic a debt collector on people who don't pay their fines and fees. ...more

August 5, 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

Most Americans feel compassionate about anyone facing foreclosure. Witnessing more than a million people staring down foreclosure due to home mortgages leaves all us wanting to save people from this sad situation. But before we spend billions in taxpayer dollars for a bailout, we need to consider how this happened in the first place. When we do that, we'll see that most of the people losing their houses never should have qualified for a home loan in the first place, and that predatory lenders are to blame for most of this mess. The Bush administration reached a deal with mortgage bankers to freeze interest rates on some sub-prime mortgages for five years. Other limitations apply, and only about 225,000 people will benefit from it. In fact, it's fair to say that if these homeowners are already in trouble, freezing interest rates won't help much – if at all. ...more

December 9, 2007