President Barack Obama's proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation's charitable institutions to the federal government. But the high-income taxpayers affected by the rule change are likely to cut their charitable giving by as much as the increase in their tax bills, which would, ironically, leave their remaining income and personal consumption unchanged. ...more

March 29, 2009

President Obama's proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation's charitable institutions to the federal government. But the high-income taxpayers affected by the rule change are likely to cut their charitable giving by as much as the increase in their tax bills, which would, ironically, leave their remaining income and personal consumption unchanged. ...more

March 29, 2009

Metaphorically speaking, it's well past 10 p.m. on the nation's countdown to the digital television transition. In less than three months, your over-the-air TV may be useless unless you act today. ...more

December 6, 2008

Florida's continuing revenue shortfall - projected to be in the billions of dollars this year and next - is unprecedented. The partisan dispute over it is anything but. ...more

September 22, 2008

TAMPA - Three former Tampa Housing Authority employees were charged today in a federal indictment with embezzling more than $125,000 in federal money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...more

December 12, 2007