Forget about the day after Thanksgiving. These days, every day is Black Friday in the world of retail shopping. ...more

November 6, 2009

Today is Wednesday, which means this must be Black Friday. Yes, every day is now Black Friday in the world of retail shopping. ...more

November 4, 2009

Don't Forget Merchants Funny, we hear so much about the big corporations hurting from this economy yet very little is mentioned about small business owners (though my chiropractor did ask me if I was going to Washington to ask for a bailout for my company). Other than that, not many are calling to ask how I am surviving the recession as a small business owner. ...more

January 12, 2009

With donors tightening their purse strings and investments hurting, the local chapter of the American Red Cross has laid off 22 employees, almost half its staff. ...more

December 14, 2008

With donors tightening their purse strings and investments hurting, the local chapter of the American Red Cross has laid off 22 employees, almost half its staff. ...more

December 13, 2008

Kitchen-related items catching our eye this week include nonstick cookware, a budget wine source, tasty mail-order pears, an impressive canned tomato and a device that transforms a tailgate into a comfy bench. ...more

December 12, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A proposed charter school that would target high school dropouts may have to delay its plans. ...more

November 13, 2008

TAMPA — The struggle over the independence of the Byrd Alzheimer's center eased today when the institute's board agreed to an affiliation with the University of South Florida. Directors of the Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center & Research Institute approved a plan to form a separate, seven-member board that would control the purse strings of the center and would include four USF representatives. The plan also would install USF health sciences Vice President Steve Klasko as the center's chief executive officer. ...more

June 20, 2008

Our tree-hugging Vermont daughter is using her economic stimulus check to buy German-made parts to convert an old diesel Mercedes to run on bio-fuel strained from the discarded grease of a local McDonald's french frier. ...more

June 14, 2008

Instead of packing it in, PACK is hoping businesses and individual donors will make up for the loss of a $50,000 state grant for an annual summer camp for youths with disabilities. ...more

May 13, 2008