TAMPA -- A proposed settlement between the city council and two companies will allow the city to maintain aesthetics in high-view areas, city officials say. But several council members, who are expected to vote on the proposal Thursday, say it would mean a proliferation of digital billboards — which look like massive television screens and display multiple advertisements — that will ruin the city's landscape and create public safety issues. ...more

December 16, 2008

A bailout plan designed to force General Motors, Chrysler and Ford to become more financially viable without risking too much taxpayer money was submitted to the White House on Monday. Here's a look at the plan: ...more

December 9, 2008

State utility regulators will consider today a key part of Gov. Charlie Crist's climate change agenda: stronger standards for renewable energy. ...more

December 3, 2008

Pasco County commissioners are poised to poised a trash fee increase ...more

December 2, 2008

Kudos to Commissioner Carlson for asking "Where's the money coming from?" and then voting "no" to voluntarily reducing county revenue. The other commissioners should have followed the rookie's lead. Instead, the majority approved measures (senior citizen tax break and combat troop stipend) which had been turned down or tabled back when the county had the money to spend. What's the logic; now that we can't afford it, we'll do it? I'm not addressing the merits of either proposal, but neither should the commission have. The county should simply not entertain requests for exemptions or expenditures from special interest groups until its revenue stream is stable; tax reductions have consequences. ...more

November 25, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist wants to give each of Florida's 11 state universities the power to raise tuition by up to 15 percent every year. ...more

November 20, 2008

Tampa's Mary Delgado, a winner of ABC's "The Bachelor" reality series in 2004, is out of jail after being arrested in a Southwest border-town bar on a disorderly conduct charge. ...more

November 18, 2008

Shareholders of Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. approved the $52 billion sale of the business to Belgium-based InBev SA on Wednesday, a deal that is set to create the world's largest brewer. ...more

November 13, 2008