Tarpon Springs officials moved with blinding speed to thank the local couple who on Tuesday morning who rescued the city's 2008 municipal fireworks display with an $18,000 donation. We, however, would certainly like to offer a few words of praise for Dave and Lisa Ulgenalp. ...more

June 7, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS - - Water and sewer rates in the city will go up each year for the next decade. The question is by how much? ...more

June 7, 2008

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled Tuesday that further interest rate cuts are unlikely because of concerns about inflation. High oil prices are a double-edged sword that can both put a damper on already weak growth and spread inflation, he said. ...more

June 4, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The local school district collected fewer sales tax dollars from Penny for Pasco in the first 10 months of 2007 than in the same period the previous year, officials reported Tuesday. ...more

January 23, 2008

Talbots will close its 78 children's and men's apparel stores to focus on its core middle-aged female customer, a retrenchment that follows disappointing sales at Talbots as well as other specialty women's apparel retailers amid tough economic conditions. ...more

January 5, 2008

Newspaper publishers, entering 2008 with some of the worst economic conditions in many years, said Wednesday that they hope to bring more readers - and ad spending - to their Web sites with expanded offerings of news, advertising and video. ...more

December 6, 2007

Moving ahead with the Railroad Square project in downtown New Port Richey in phases may give the city a cheap out if the economics of the streetscape makeover don't work out. ...more

November 28, 2007

When most of us look at income statistics, we are not just being numbers junkies. We want to find out something about actual flesh-and-blood human beings - specifically what their standard of living is like. ...more

November 26, 2007

Unemployment is low and the labor force is still growing, but the area's housing market continues to drag down the local economy, according to a new snapshot of Bay area economic conditions. ...more

October 3, 2007

Stocks finished sharply lower Wednesday as a jittery Wall Street sold off on a report showing a large drop in pending home sales and read anecdotal data from the Federal Reserve's regional banks as offering little assurance that an interest rate cut is likely. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped more than 140 points. ...more

September 6, 2007