City Commissioner Bill Dodson, Plant City's longtime representative on the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, has been named chairman of the 40-member association of local governments. ...more

November 19, 2008

Florida's public employee pension plan has lost more than a quarter of its peak value, but Gov. Charlie Crist and other officials Monday said the fund is built for the long haul and there's no need to panic. ...more

November 17, 2008

It is tempting to give General Motors the emergency federal cash it says it needs to stay in business. Jobs would be saved, at least for a while. ...more

November 15, 2008

If you had $19.1 million to buy and redevelop foreclosed properties, how would you spend it? That's the question the Hillsborough County Commission will consider at a public hearing Thursday. ...more

November 3, 2008

Snowbirds coming back for the winter might want to know that restrictions on lawn watering continue to remain in effect. ...more

November 3, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners will take public comments Thursday on how to spend a $19.1 million federal grant to buy and redevelop foreclosed properties. ...more

November 1, 2008

Hillsborough County Commissioners will take public comments Thursday on how to spend a $19.1 million federal grant to buy and redevelop foreclosed properties. The money comes to the county through the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, part of a broader housing recovery act passed by Congress earlier this year to deal with skyrocketing numbers of foreclosures. ...more

October 31, 2008

Tax money given as an incentive to a private business to create jobs raises the question of how taxpayers at large will benefit from the deal. ...more

October 28, 2008

When city officials needed money for the Central Park Village redevelopment project, they turned to the bond markets. ...more

October 19, 2008

With land prices tanking, environmentalists say now is the time to pounce on a depressed real estate market to preserve thousands more acres for wildlife, water protection and quality of life. ...more

October 18, 2008