WASHINGTON - Wells Fargo & Co., which received $25 billion in taxpayer bailout money, is planning a series of corporate junkets to Las Vegas casinos this month. ...more

February 3, 2009

The city plans to pump an additional $1.5 million in federal and state grants into a program to buy foreclosed and abandoned homes in neighborhoods hardest hit by the mortgage crisis. ...more

January 30, 2009

Tampa has gotten the federal OK to spend $13.6 million to buy foreclosed and abandoned properties. ...more

January 21, 2009

Tampa has gotten the federal OK to spend $13.6 million to buy foreclosed and abandoned properties. The funding will come from the city's share of the $3.9 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program, a response to escalating foreclosures nationwide. The stabilization program is overseen by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. ...more

January 20, 2009

The Tampa City Council on Thursday gave a tentative nod to Mayor Pam Iorio's plan to use $13.6 million in federal funding to buy foreclosed and abandoned homes - but not without criticizing the administration for keeping the council out of the loop. ...more

November 21, 2008

The Tampa City Council today gave a tentative nod to Mayor Pam Iorio's plan to use $13.6 million in federal funding to buy foreclosed and abandoned homes -- but not without criticizing the administration for keeping the council out of the loop. ...more

November 20, 2008

Ken Poulsen of Tarpon Springs says Wall Street hypocrites have profited from war. ...more

November 15, 2008

City officials unveiled plans Thursday to buy more than 100 foreclosed and abandoned homes in neighborhoods hardest hit by the mortgage crisis. ...more

November 14, 2008

City officials today unveiled ambitious plans to purchase more than 100 foreclosed and abandoned homes in neighborhoods hardest hit by the mortgage crisis. ...more

November 13, 2008

With thousands of foreclosed houses littering its landscape, Pasco County is eligible for nearly $20 million in federal aid - the fifth-highest grant in Florida. ...more

October 18, 2008