A former University of South Florida student charged with trying to help terrorists accused his attorney Wednesday of billing $750,000 for his services and then trying to coerce him into pleading guilty. ...more

January 10, 2008

TAMPA - A former University of South Florida student charged with trying to help terrorists accused his high-profile attorney Wednesday of charging $750,000 for his services and then trying to coerce him into pleading guilty. ...more

January 9, 2008

TEMPLE TERRACE - The art of negotiating is nothing new to Ron Govin, chief executive officer of Mark Master, a family-owned and -operated business in Tampa. He considers himself an astute bargainer when it comes to trying to put together deals. That is why Govin, also a Temple Terrace city councilman, was selected in March as the council's representative at meetings between city staff and the developer of the city's downtown revitalization project. ...more

January 2, 2008

Jon Gruden discusses Sunday's game against Carolina and other topics. ...more

December 28, 2007

It's a delicate balance our county and communities must make when determining whether to take cash or land as payment for impacts on growth in this area. Making sure we have adequate land for schools, recreation, government offices, fire departments, etc., is critical. So is the need for cash to pay for impacted infrastructure. ...more

December 20, 2007

Phil Thibodeau has kids of his own, 9-year-old Dalton and 5-year-old Dylann. At work, the man they called "Tibs" is responsible for the off-ice well-being of 20 or so grown men. ...more

December 17, 2007

Tale Of 2 Counties Not long after the problems at the Sarasota YMCA, the privatized "lead agency" for five of the six counties in the Florida Department of Children & Families' Suncoast Region, started getting long-overdue attention - the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform first pointed out this agency was having problems in 2002 - there's been a mystery: ...more

November 23, 2007

Give Elia Her Due Regarding "Leader Of Schools Lacks Tact, Critics Say" (front page, Nov. 13): ...more

November 18, 2007

The way the players tell it, they don't seek the information out; it comes to them. ...more

November 10, 2007

Regarding 'Bracing For Boom, Bridges On Alafia' (Metro, Oct. 8): Fifth-graders know when a council allows zoning changes at the beck and call of developers, infrastructure has to be considered in advance. Simple things like water supply, power, environmental problems and traffic movement must be considered. I know warnings were given repeatedly by the Tribune on all these subjects and were ignored by the 'first-graders' on the commission. ...more

October 12, 2007