Ask Hillsborough County Administrator Pat Bean her goals and she will explain she wants to duplicate the success of the fleet management department, which has taken innovative steps to cut fuel use and where Bean is justifiably proud of hiring the enterprising director, Sharon Subadan. ...more

December 13, 2009

The federal grant to pay for a study of the Suncoast's economic future by the Tampa Bay Partnership has not yet been granted. This planned "cluster study" was the subject of an article published in the "Partners Pursuing Pasco Prosperity" special section distributed Nov. 18. ...more

November 27, 2009

How a team handles adversity often measures its mettle. Coming through the difficult times, well, those are times teams often come together, mold a team identity and learn how to grow when times are tough. ...more

November 19, 2009

You cannot legislate poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody, anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea it does no good to work because someone else is going to get what they worked for, that my friend is the beginning of the end of a nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ...more

November 16, 2009

It seems Congress is always able to surpass its previous level of either chicanery or stupidity. Either our representatives are making a wedding gift commemorating the unholy marriage between big money and big government or someone needs to hand it a sign saying "I'm Stupid!" ...more

November 7, 2009

More than $135 million is set aside for Florida agencies as part of a White House initiative to enhance state and local law enforcement. ...more

March 6, 2009

Pinellas officials had no good news for people who attended a Tuesday night town hall meeting on the county's budget plans for the 2010 fiscal year. ...more

March 4, 2009

President Barack Obama laid out his first budget plan Thursday predicting a stunning federal deficit of $1.75 trillion this year - nearly four times last year's record - and asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy to stem that flood of red ink while still moving the country toward guaranteed health care for all. ...more

February 27, 2009

A number of editorials in major and local newspapers repeat the mantra that the collective "we" caused many of the crises facing us today; that the collective "we" allowed our leaders to be corrupt; that "we" kept putting the same corrupt elected officials in government; that the collective "we" were spend thrifts, using credit cards to buy now and pay later, letting the bills pile up. And what about the credit card corporations? ...more

January 25, 2009

The Tampa Tribune recently ran several stories about the owners of the Tampa Bay Rowdies seeking a rezoning from Hillsborough County to build a 5,000-seat soccer stadium in Town 'N Country and its subsequent denial by the county commission. ...more

January 21, 2009