"Cash for Clunkers" may have ended, but some retailers are piggybacking on the popular federal car rebate program, offering their own deals with a clunker twist. ...more

September 11, 2009

Company hopes to create 100 jobs B/O/T/H, a company that provides back-office help to independent contractors, could win up to $850,000 in tax refunds if it creates 100 jobs, a news release states. B/O/T/H, which stands for Back of the House, is opening a corporate headquarters in St. Petersburg. The company provides services such as IT, billing and collections to self-employed contractors. ...more

September 1, 2009

Progress Energy and its Florida customers are generating more than 1 megawatt of solar power, a "significant" milestone for the St. Petersburg-based utility, company officials said Monday. ...more

March 24, 2009

A top adviser to President-elect Barack Obama said Sunday that the country's slowing economy won't keep the new administration from fulfilling its plans for a middle-class tax cut. ...more

December 29, 2008

Nearly one-third of the country's top executives expect to cut payrolls in the coming months as companies cope with a weakened economy dogged by housing, credit and financial problems. ...more

September 12, 2008

More Americans are in line to get rebates if a revised plan continues its quick move through the Senate. ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA - News of the federal government doling out rebates in May that range from the hundreds to thousands of dollars was greeted with a bit of skepticism as well as musings of how to spend the cash this morning. ...more

January 25, 2008

The city administration on Thursday proposed ways for Tampa to be a greener city, but the plan didn't include incentives for developers to build green, in contrast to an earlier proposal from a councilman. ...more

January 24, 2008

Councilman John Dingfelder has proposed a plan to entice developers - and require the city - to meet certain environmental standards on new buildings. ...more

January 10, 2008

Councilman John Dingfelder floated several ideas Tuesday designed to encourage developers to be more environmentally friendly. ...more

December 19, 2007