Northwest Elementary School helps needy students and their families every holiday season, just like many other schools in Pasco County. ...more

December 17, 2008 |

TAMPA Hillsborough County School Board members today will consider plugging part of what may be a $55 million budget shortfall by shutting down all district buildings one day a week next summer. District leaders say they can save as much as $1.5 million by keeping summer school and other facilities open just four days a week. The district knows it has to cut at least $26 million this fiscal year. But if Florida's governor and Legislature don't come up with more money for education and other services, Hillsborough schools may have to cut an additional $28.9 million. ...more

December 9, 2008 |

By mid-December, Hillsborough County school leaders will have to cut from their budget $26 million that they already planned to lose. ...more

November 25, 2008 |

There is good news from the land of WCI. The 2009 dues numbers are out and we will not be lambasted this year. The increase is more than modest as you will see below. And, just as important, it looks like we again have access to the North Lakes Course. ...more

November 12, 2008 |

The government, raising cash to pay for the array of financial rescue packages, said Monday it plans to borrow $550 billion this quarter - and that's just a down payment. ...more

November 4, 2008 |

What's left in Uncle Sam's economic tool kit? The commitment of $700 billion didn't impress markets here and around the world. Neither did fresh interest rate cuts. Stocks plunged again Thursday. ...more

October 10, 2008 |

What's left in Uncle Sam's economic tool kit? The commitment of $700 billion didn't impress markets here and around the world. Neither did fresh interest rate cuts. Stocks plunged yet again on Thursday. ...more

October 9, 2008 |

At a time when the nation's economic outlook is in a state of high anxiety, to get word that the state has defined your city as having a "financial emergency" of its own could understandably be enough to alarm concerned residents. ...more

October 1, 2008 |

A lot was at stake last spring: The leader of Florida's public universities warned top lawmakers that his schools were weakened by budget cuts and that a planned move by the Legislature to overhaul his system of higher education would erode its credibility. ...more

September 28, 2008 |

Americans see a slice of sunlight for the economy, as a widely watched report on Tuesday showed that people are not as pessimistic about the future as they were a month ago. ...more

July 30, 2008 |