Peter Girouard has a front-row seat of the construction that has brought business in the city's commercial core "down to a trickle." He doesn't like what he sees. ...more

October 10, 2007

TAMPA - Bill Place's hard-fought battle to add miniature golf to his Pebble Creek holdings was dealt a setback today by the Hillsborough County Commission, which rejected his request for a zoning modification. After the lengthy hearing before an overflow crowd of nearly 200 people, Place said he would appeal the commission's 5-2 decision. ...more

October 9, 2007

It says a lot about Carlos Pena that the bulk of the praise offered by Joe Maddon and Andrew Friedman after the Devil Rays' first baseman was named AL Comeback Player of the Year on Tuesday had nothing to do with his eye-popping statistics. ...more

October 3, 2007

Tuesday night for several hours, city officials tried to clarify misinformation and how setbacks occurred in the process to obtain permits for the city's decade-old dredging project. ...more

September 27, 2007

Lobbyist John Thrasher, a lawyer and former speaker of the Florida House, makes a bogus but convincing case against the Hometown Democracy amendment that voters will possibly consider in November 2008. ...more

September 24, 2007

If Gen. David Petraeus has his way, tens of thousands of U.S. troops will be in Iraq for years. ...more

September 11, 2007

Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, has told President Bush that he wants to maintain heightened troop levels in Iraq well into next year to reduce the risk of military setbacks, but could accept the pullback of an initial brigade beginning in January, according to senior administration and military officials. ...more

September 7, 2007