Sixteen area businesses showed their community spirit and patriotism by participating in Ruskin Memorial VFW 6287's 2009 Veterans Day Parade: Apollo Cellular; Beanie's Family Sports Grill; Bennett Building & Development; Canadian Meds South; D & L Insurance; Dynamic Painting; Flip Flops & Fitness; Freedom Plaza; Jasminelaina Lawn & Landscaping; M & I Bank; Pet Kingdom Grooming Salon; Sanchez Brothers Custom Fabrication; Shell Point Marina; TECO Energy; People's Gas; and Weichert Realtors - SouthShore. ...more

November 25, 2009

Sometimes networking pays off. For some, it comes as a sales lead or prospective client; for me, it's a nifty column idea or recipe. ...more

November 25, 2009

The Hillsborough County Tourist Development Council tabled two issues Thursday until its February meeting. ...more

November 17, 2009

Hillsborough County commissioners took the first step Wednesday toward putting a 1-cent sales tax increase for mass transit and road improvements on the ballot in November 2010. ...more

November 5, 2009

The South Tampa Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a ribbon-cutting for First Citrus Bank's new branch at 4302 W. Kennedy Blvd. ...more

October 7, 2009

A proposed West Shore Business District multipurpose center would compete with the Tampa Convention Center and erode its sales, the administrator of the city-owned facility said Thursday. ...more

August 7, 2009

There are lots of bridges to cross and roads to travel for lawmakers bent on ending the time-honored practice of funneling money to their home states: at least 6,800 of them. It's as if the outcry over pet projects in big spending bills - commonly known as "earmarks" - never occurred. ...more

May 21, 2009

More than 100 businesses and other organizations will be showcased Thursday at the MiraBay Villages Shopping Center. ...more

March 25, 2009

Tim Gannon's goal when he created the first menu 21 years ago for Outback Steakhouse was to offer an affordable steak experience that fit somewhere between Bennigan's on the lower end of the casual dining scale and Morton's on the top end. ...more

March 19, 2009

Mayor Pam Iorio will meet with Gov. Charlie Crist's chief of staff on Wednesday to make her pitch for a Tampa-centric rail plan, a project that will require state funding. ...more

February 10, 2009