For A Better Future Regarding Tom Jackson's "Hillsborough Trash Surprise Echoes Here" column (Feb. 19), it is fortunate for the citizens of Pasco County that neither he nor the landfill applicant is responsible for crunching the solid waste disposal numbers in our county. ...more

February 25, 2008

Kforce Inc., the Tampa-based professional staffing firm, has broken through the billion dollar barrier. ...more

February 7, 2008

Harbinger Capital Partners proposed three candidates to the board of Media General as part of a plan to seek changes at the owner of The Tampa Tribune and other media properties. ...more

January 26, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Tampa IndyMac Closing Tampa is one of five cities where IndyMac Bancorp will close regional wholesale mortgage centers as the Pasadena, Calif.-based home lender eliminates 2,400 jobs, or 24 percent of its remaining work force. A company spokesman on Thursday would not disclose the number of affected employees in Tampa or when layoffs would occur. The company, which has said its layoffs nationally will occur in the first quarter, opened the Tampa office in May 2006, saying that it would employ 140 here. ...more

January 18, 2008

Shares of WellCare Health Plans Inc. were among the market's big gainers Monday after the Tampa-based company announced it received renewal of federal contracts in five states, including Florida, along with permission to expand into hundreds of counties in those states. ...more

January 14, 2008

Shares of Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, sank to an all-time low Tuesday as a major home builder offered a grim outlook for the industry and amid signals that the Bush administration is growing more concerned about rising mortgage defaults. ...more

January 9, 2008

TOUSA's joint venture with Transeastern Homes could pull the multibillion-dollar homebuilder into bankruptcy. ...more

November 24, 2007

TOUSA's joint venture with Transeastern Homes could pull the multibillion-dollar home builder into bankruptcy. ...more

November 24, 2007

Striking television and film writers took their fight to the money men Tuesday, marching on Wall Street to complain that the nation's media giants aren't sharing the wealth from their efforts to put content online. ...more

November 14, 2007

Banks and brokers face as much as $100 billion of write-downs because of level 3 accounting rules, in addition to the losses caused by the subprime credit slump, according to Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc. ...more

November 8, 2007