Public transit ridership fell 6 percent in June to 974,054 passengers compared with a year ago, a Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority report states. ...more

August 6, 2009

Gasoline prices that last week thumbed their nose at the basics of supply and demand, may start following the rules this week and edge down. ...more

January 11, 2009

Prius drivers are not suffering any buyer's remorse, despite a plunge in gasoline prices that has for the moment made the cars less economical, said some owners of the popular hybrid. ...more

January 5, 2009

The turmoil surrounding the economy with bailouts, foreclosures and businesses closing, ...more

December 1, 2008

Judge Michael Hunter has granted Leon Davis' motion to dismiss his standby counsel, Stephen Fisher, in a pair of cases involving five slayings. ...more

November 20, 2008

Remember the days when unleaded gas cost less than $3 a gallon? Well, it's still possible to return to "the good old days," according to an AAA spokesman. ...more

October 14, 2008

Drivers in Sarasota can get gas today for less than $3 a gallon. Cars started backing up about noon today after the Dodge Store at Fruitville and Beneva roads posted the price of regular, unleaded gas at $2.94. ...more

October 7, 2008

By rights, John McCain should be getting hammered on economics. ...more

August 20, 2008

Free Market Effect Regarding "Columnist Is Naïve" (Letters, July 29): The letter writer claims that "the price of oil futures went down following upon and directly related to President Bush's changing the presidential ban on offshore drilling." He and others who agree are flat out wrong. ...more

August 2, 2008

As much as a lot of people will choke just hearing this, President Jimmy Carter was right. His energy policy, if it had been continued, would have had this country oil independent today. But leaders who followed him in the Oval Office didn't have the courage or political will to make it happen. ...more

July 18, 2008