For 55 years, Hillsborough County and its three cities have benefited from a public-private partnership to generate new jobs and raise the per capita income of residents. ...more

November 7, 2009

In honor of Fitness/Nutrition Awareness Month, Gov. Charlie Crist recognized Karen Pesce of Tampa as the Points of Light Award recipient for the week of March 20. ...more

April 1, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent Friday morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. ...more

March 29, 2009

A gaggle of young volunteers who'd never heard of black rush grass spent this morning plugging it into the shoreline of a freshwater pond near the Tampa Electric Co.'s Big Bend Station. They learned that restoration is a fix for environmental damage perpetrated by human activity, like fish farming, ditching and agriculture. They planted grasses to stabilize the shoreline and held horseshoe crabs and other creatures that live in and around Newman Branch Creek. ...more

March 27, 2009

Struggling to contain the worst financial crisis in seven decades, the Obama administration wants to buy billions of dollars of toxic assets from banks to ease borrowing for consumers and businesses. ...more

March 22, 2009

The issue: Privatization of county government services. Our opinion: In some cases it makes a lot of sense, but officials should examine prospects carefully. ...more

March 22, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet recently recognized the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida for 20 years of outstanding service to the children and families of our great state. ...more

March 21, 2009

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could announce as soon as Monday his much-anticipated plan to get toxic assets off the books of the country's struggling banks, administration and industry officials said. ...more

March 21, 2009

This week USF Health CEO Stephen Klasko and Tampa Congresswoman Kathy Castor launched a program Klasko is convinced will be the beginning of "an electronic revolution in health care." ...more

March 19, 2009

The University of South Florida on Monday launched a drive to persuade area doctors to ditch their paper medical records and switch to an all-electronic prescriptions system. ...more

March 17, 2009