WestShore Plaza owner may change WestShore Plaza could have a new owner soon. Current owner Glimcher Realty Trust is close to a deal to sell a 60 percent stake in WestShore and one other mall to private equity firm Blackstone Group LP for $195 million, the Wall Street Journal said, citing unnamed sources. ...more

November 4, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - On a modest rectangle of land on U.S. 41 where Golf Car Depot hangs its Pasco shingle, two things, intensely related, happened on a recent Saturday coinciding with the publishing of a breathtaking editorial in The Wall Street Journal. ...more

October 28, 2009

The decline in U.S. newspaper circulation is accelerating as the industry struggles with defections to the Internet and tumbling ad revenue. ...more

October 27, 2009

reforming health care and regulating Wall Street - have unleashed massive campaigns from the enemies of free markets. ...more

October 25, 2009

One of our most distinguished contributors to the Hernando Today letters to the editor posed a most significant question today, asking, "Why do Elected Officials refuse to listen to us?" ...more

October 24, 2009

Busch Gardens may be closer to having a new owner. Blackstone Group LP, a New York-based investment firm, is looking into a deal to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev's theme parks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. It cited an unidentified source. ...more

September 24, 2009

Blackstone Group LP, a New York-based investment firm, is looking into a possible deal to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev's theme parks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. ...more

September 23, 2009

Bank of America Corp. could eventually shrink its 6,100-branch network by about 10 percent as consumers choose other methods of banking, a company spokesman said Tuesday. ...more

July 29, 2009

$30 billion The amount of loan losses expected by the end of 2009 on offices, shopping malls, hotels and other commercial property. ...more

July 22, 2009

As readers of this column know, I got into blogging on Twitter last year. (My Twitter logon is @TheStew. Creative, I know.) ...more

March 29, 2009