The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration lawfully can pay the community group ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group. ...more

November 28, 2009

County commissioners Tuesday unanimously ratified a contract the union negotiated with management. ...more

November 12, 2009

Members of Tampa's largest union overwhelmingly approved a proposed one-year contract with the city that includes no pay raises and no reduction in benefits. ...more

November 11, 2009

The city's largest union goes to the polls today to vote on a proposed one-year contract for city workers that includes no pay raises and no reduction in benefits. ...more

November 10, 2009

Physicians and pharmacies need dual billing: Liability and release from liability; a release from liability charge would likely be about 20 percent as much as a liability charge. When an obstetrician's annual malpractice insurance and redundant lab work of $300,000 is divided by a 250-day work year, the obstetrician needs $1,200 per day just to cover liability, which must be passed to the patient. ...more

September 15, 2009

A Senate committee has approved opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling within 10 miles to the Florida Panhandle and within 45 miles off the rest of the state's coastline. ...more

June 9, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a bill to restore caps on fees for lawyers representing workers in compensation appeals for on-the-job injuries. ...more

May 29, 2009

Offenders sentenced to wear ankle bracelets would have to pay for their own monitoring, up to about $3,300 a year, under a bill Florida lawmakers advanced Tuesday. ...more

April 1, 2009

Let's face it, the wheels of technology are moving at an astonishing rate. And we have the choice of moving along with it or being bowled over by it. I'm an old-fashioned map-reader. I like to unfold one of those things that try the souls of men to refold properly - a woman would simply replace the unfolded one with a new map - to plan a route to get to where I want to go. Computer map programs however are rather inflexible and I seldom agree with the way they want to send me. But now there is a newer technology. ...more

February 21, 2009

A federal judge this afternoon approved the city's $150,000 settlement to the family of a man killed during a 2005 traffic stop. ...more

February 13, 2009