Luring Draper Laboratory cost $20 million, but local government leaders are hoping the millions spent to bring the research company to Tampa will pay huge dividends. ...more

October 27, 2009

About 95 government and community leaders met at an eight-hour summit Thursday to identify the top issues facing Hernando County. ...more

March 19, 2009

President Barack Obama embraced merit pay for teachers Tuesday in spelling out a vision of education that will almost certainly alienate union backers. ...more

March 10, 2009

Tax money given as an incentive to a private business to create jobs raises the question of how taxpayers at large will benefit from the deal. ...more

October 28, 2008

more than $256 million in wages, products and services over the past four years. The entertainment industry creates thousands of jobs for Floridians. ...more

September 22, 2008

Draper Laboratory made it official Monday. Executives with the Massachusetts-based, nonprofit research corporation acknowledged that it will build labs worth $30 million at the University of South Florida in Tampa and a new microchip manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg. ...more

July 29, 2008

Florida has managed to create a small scientific research industry that has put the state on the life sciences map, even if its industry is tiny when compared with Boston or San Diego. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Bridgeport Center Sold Flagler Development Group of Jacksonville has acquired its first Tampa property, paying $29.5 million to buy the nine-story Bridgeport Center, 5201 W. Kennedy Blvd., from Boston-based AEW Capital Management. Mike Davis, senior director for Cushman & Wakefield, which brokered the deal, said Bridgeport Center is the area's first major office building to trade hands since the credit crunch hit Wall Street in November. Davis said the 170,924-square-foot building in the West Shore business district sold for nearly as much as Cushman & Wakefield estimated it would before the credit troubles. The deal proves buyers remain bullish about commercial properties in the Tampa Bay area, Davis said. ...more

February 2, 2008