Although Alexandra Greacen has worked for Best Buddies for only three years, she recently was selected one of the nonprofit organization's national employees of the year. She started as a volunteer for the organization that promotes friendship for people with disabilities before becoming the national senior program manager and the Florida director of programs in 2006. ...more

March 25, 2009

The Disney Channel is going back to school with "High School Musical 4." ...more

March 3, 2009

The other shoe has dropped. Trying to figure out what the county's new organization, or "leadership team," has in store for the local taxpayer, I've spotted a rather unnerving twist: County Administrator David Hamilton is grabbing as much power as possible to his own office. ...more

February 21, 2009

Lately, I've been hearing a lot from people of all ages who want to go back to school. ...more

February 1, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - An alarming half-million American jobs vanished virtually in a flash last month, the worst mass layoffs in over a third of a century, as economic carnage spread ever faster and the U.S. hurtled toward what could be the hardest hard times since the Great Depression. ...more

December 7, 2008

An alarming half-million American jobs vanished last month, the worst mass layoffs in more than a third of a century, as economic carnage spread ever faster and the nation hurtled toward what could be the hardest hard times since the Great Depression. ...more

December 6, 2008

It was just the sort of party Bette Lou Corcoran would have loved. Glasses tinkling, voices buzzing, the occasional eruption of laughter. Although weather forecasters delivered ominous warnings about a possible hurricane named Fay, the panoramic sunset view of Tampa Bay from the 38th-floor University Club was positively sublime. ...more

August 24, 2008