Gas prices across Florida remained stagnant last week and could remain steady through the Thanksgiving travel period. ...more

November 24, 2009

Motorists may be giving thanks this week for lower gas prices — at least if annual trends hold up. ...more

November 23, 2009

Hillsborough Area Regional Transit ridership has fallen for the first time since 2002. Ridership during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 dropped by 3.1 percent to 12.3 million passengers. ...more

November 4, 2009

Hillsborough Area Regional Transit ridership fell during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 for the first time since 2002, a 3.1 percent decline compared with a year ago to 12.3 million passengers. ...more

November 3, 2009

I read the letters where the Constitution is used to make ones personal point, bent to fit their views. It is a good document in which our government should be run, but too many years have passed for it to now be absolute. If we want to go back to that time in history then we must remember that many of the writers owned slaves. There were indebted persons and a poor house in which to be jailed. Women of the time were only good to have children and keep the house. The writers could not have foreseen all the advances that have been made in our country; if they could some of the text might have been written differently. ...more

November 1, 2009

The year was 1959, and the nation was recovering from a recession. Unemployment was at 1.4 million; foreign relations were strained as Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba; and motorists were complaining about a 2-cent rise in gas prices to 32 cents a gallon. ...more

October 30, 2009

Gas prices are rising in Florida, following the path of crude oil prices upward during the past month. ...more

October 27, 2009

Stockpiles of oil are increasing as demand is on the decline. That is what caused a slow and steady decline in pump prices throughout Florida last month, according to AAA Auto Club South. ...more

August 2, 2009

Amtrak's Silver Star, which serves Tampa on its daily northbound and southbound runs between New York and Miami, continued to gain ridership in April despite a nationwide decline in Amtrak ridership. ...more

June 23, 2009

Gasoline prices in Florida continue to rise, but the pace of the increases could slow after jumping 39 cents a gallon in May. ...more

June 2, 2009