After a month of personnel appointments and canine selection, last week was the Obama administration's week of revelation. ...more

March 4, 2009

With the home inventory market rebounding slightly, it would be more prudent for the county to rethink its proposed Comprehensive Plan for Recovery (CPR) and focus more on creating jobs, the president of the Hernando County Association of Realtors said. ...more

February 28, 2009

A Massachusetts-based company committed Thursday to building the country's first cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. ...more

January 16, 2009

Three Florida business leaders have offered job creation proposals to the state Senate Select Committee on Florida's Economy. ...more

January 15, 2009

At least 34 Florida businesses would be eligible to obtain low-interest loans from the state to help them expand under a bill lawmakers passed Wednesday. ...more

January 15, 2009

A task force drawing on the expertise of Hillsborough County's business titans will be charged with developing job-creation strategies to help the area weather the recession, county commissioners said Wednesday. ...more

January 8, 2009

Hillsborough County needs to quit talking about attracting high-paying jobs and start getting specific about what it will take to become an economic powerhouse, county commissioners said Thursday. ...more

December 12, 2008

President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars. ...more

November 22, 2008

Democrats fared well on the national scene Tuesday. But don't tell that to incumbent Democratic county commissioners Chris Kingsley and Diane Rowden, who were voted out of office and replaced by two self-avowed fiscal conservative Republicans: James Adkins and John Druzbick. ...more

November 6, 2008

If Obama lived in number-obsessed China, he'd try to have 95 in his phone number or live at an address with 95 in it. ...more

October 25, 2008