Hillis Brewer has been sober for 33 years; he's 68 now. He's been a barber nearly all his life - over 48 years spent cutting hair on Sarasota's Main Street, first in Brewer's Family Hair, where his dad worked with him, and later on his own in Hairstyles by Hillis. A little over three years ago, he retired but found he missed cutting hair, and so last spring, he hung a "Hillis is Back" sign in the storefront window of Jack's Barber Shop, an old-school, two-chair setup at 1658 Main, and went back to work. ...more

December 24, 2009

Help Wanted: Brave senator or senators willing to champion amendment creating fail-safe mechanism to control health care spending. ...more

December 18, 2009

For Jessica Galarza, the 14-year-old car might not have had a red bow around it, but it did represent not only Christmas present, but Christmas future as well. ...more

December 9, 2009

For Jessica, the 14-year-old car might not have had a red bow around it, but it did represent not only Christmas present, but Christmas future as well. ...more

December 9, 2009

For one team, there was the joy of a championship. For the other, there was the disappointment of coming so close to victory, only to see it evaporate. ...more

December 2, 2009

Hurt by a slow summer, Margarita Mama's, Banana Joe's and two other clubs at Channelside Bay Plaza fell behind on rent and have been evicted. ...more

November 28, 2009

Entertainers have been misbehaving on TV — or accused of it, at least — long before singer Adam Lambert was even born. ...more

November 24, 2009

President Obama was crystal clear last spring when he said a new tax credit called Making Work Pay would boost the spending power of 120 million families and save or create 500,000 jobs. ...more

November 23, 2009

WASHINGTON — More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama's tax break that was designed to help consumers spend the U.S. economy out of recession. ...more

November 16, 2009

Last spring, the cigar industry fretted that the federal government might tax so-called "little cigars" into oblivion. ...more

November 4, 2009