It's only September and I'm already sick of the political ads on TV. If you listen to any of them, no one running for office is worthy of the position they seek. ...more

September 28, 2008

Business Briefs ...more

September 1, 2008

New federal help for the big mortgage lenders and first-time homebuyers could help revive Tampa's housing market. The quicker markets stabilize, the less taxpayers will have to pay in the complex bill with an unknown price tag. ...more

August 5, 2008

A slow economy, a free-spending Congress and an extravagant White House will give the nation its largest budget deficit ever next year - $482 billion. ...more

July 30, 2008

Corn blankets eastern Nebraska in the summer. Straight roads glide over the hills, dividing the fields like measuring tape. In the 19th century the Homestead Act sectioned the land into neat plots for new settlers. ...more

July 14, 2008

United Airlines has laid off 1,400 employees and will, in the next two or three months, furlough 950 pilots. ...more

June 25, 2008

Making ends meet on food stamps has never been easy for Cassandra Johnson, but since food prices began their steep climb this year, she has had to develop new survival strategies. ...more

June 22, 2008

Pass Brown-Waite Bill To Lift Ethanol Tariff It seems like our candidates for president are more interested in talking about gender, race and what they will do when elected. As one of their taxpaying employers, I would like to know if they have introduced any bill to lower the high cost of gasoline and food prices. ...more

June 17, 2008

Tainted tomatoes highlight how Congress forfeited some food-safety opportunities in the new farm bill. ...more

June 11, 2008

More than 800 black farmers filed a new lawsuit against the Agriculture Department just two weeks after Congress reopened a 1999 settlement over past discrimination. ...more

June 5, 2008