The number of laid-off workers receiving unemployment benefits has jumped to an all-time high near 5 million while new jobless claims remain well above 600,000. Both figures were worse than expected and new projections from the Federal Reserve show unemployment rising for the rest of this year. ...more

February 19, 2009

Here are some interesting facts from the U.S. Small Business Administration: Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all employer firms, employ half of all private-sector employees, pay nearly 45 percent of total private payroll nationwide and have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually over the past decade. ...more

February 18, 2009

A Tampa man is accused of exchanging fake money for real cash and cocaine, affidavits say. Randall Izquierdo-Cardenas, 38, is charged with felony possession of counterfeit bills and felony cocaine trafficking. He was held at Orient Road Jail today without bail, jail records show. ...more

October 10, 2008

According to recent newspaper articles and TV news reports we are planning to spend these amounts of money: $700 billion for economic bailout, $700 billion for foreign oil and $150 billion a year for the war in Iraq. ...more

September 26, 2008

An alert manager at the Race Trac gas station wasn't fooled when sheriff's investigators say a Sebring youth tried to pass a phony $5 bill in early June to pay for a gallon of milk. ...more

August 23, 2008

After becoming only the third state nationally to jump into the fight against youth steroid abuse, the Florida High School Athletic Association will be discontinuing its testing policy after just one year of implementation. ...more

June 7, 2008

My Safe Florida Home officials like to brag about how much money the hurricane inspection and grant program is saving homeowners on their wind insurance premiums. ...more

February 6, 2008

As I was quoted in the Thursday, Jan. 17, edition of Hernando Today that Amendment 1 is "not going to do squat," let me also state that it is important that we vote "Yes" on Amendment 1. If we don't vote for the amendment, our state and local lawmakers will say, "The citizens have spoken and do not want their taxes lowered." ...more

January 18, 2008

The fight over a constitutional amendment promising property tax relief came to Tampa on Wednesday, with Gov. Charlie Crist outside of a South Tampa home urging voters to back the measure while a major union was downtown lobbying against it. ...more

January 17, 2008

Ybor City, to be sure, remains a work in progress. ...more

October 17, 2007