Bear Creek Coffee Cafe's owners say its coffee is all about the beans, but its coffee is not all the cafe is about. ...more

June 11, 2008

Scrawled in black Sharpie, the messages of love and support adorn hundreds of white bags of Starbucks coffee in Bob Williams' Wesley Chapel warehouse. (See above item.) Filling a dozen gigantic bins, the mounds of donated bags of coffee, purchased by Starbucks customers as part of a donation effort by franchisees, are shipped to U.S. troops stationed overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

June 11, 2008

La gasolina que se vende en EEUU aún es más barata que la mayoría de productos líquidos, incluyendo bebidas energéticas en Publix o un café en Starbucks. ...more

June 5, 2008

TAMPA - As most U.S. motorists pay nearly $4 for a gallon of gasoline, pump prices are significantly higher in London, where drivers are paying more than $9 a gallon. ...more

June 4, 2008

Lennar's national "Let's Get America Moving" campaign, with its special pricing and low-interest mortgage option, was initiated as a way to provide home buyers with the opportunity to own a new home with low payments. On May 3, the company took that concept a step further with its Super Saturday Sale, says Jassy Friddle, marketing manager with Lennar Tampa. ...more

May 20, 2008

Most days the mail just sits there in the box until one of us finally goes for the bad news. Weekends are usually worse. For some reason, Saturdays are when we get the bills that are messed up; the ones that some store's accounts have somehow taken a debit instead of a credit. ...more

May 2, 2008

TAMPA (and almost every other town in America) - When you pull on the door and it's locked, don't panic. ...more

February 26, 2008

TAMPA (and almost every other town in America) - When you pull on the door and it's locked, don't panic. ...more

February 25, 2008

Only in the Blogosphere could an anonymous posting by a cranky Starbucks barista produce a debate over whether "skinny" is the newest politically incorrect word. ...more

February 24, 2008

Starbucks will not brew coffee in downtown Dunedin next year after all. This week the upscale coffee giant notified developer Joseph Kokolakis, who is refurbishing a row of shops at the western entrance to Main Street, it could not sign a lease at this time, Economic Development Director Bob Ironsmith said Thursday night. ...more

February 22, 2008