State Sen. Paula Dockery's decision to challenge Attorney General Bill McCollum for the GOP gubernatorial nomination may upset the party's elders, but the competition will be good for the Republican rank and file. ...more

November 4, 2009

Re: "City workers, union split on raises" (Metro, Aug. 5): ...more

August 7, 2009

Members of Tampa's largest union have approved a proposed one-year contract with the city that includes pay raises of up to 5.5 percent for some. ...more

March 27, 2009

Members of Tampa's largest union have approved a proposed one-year contract with the city that includes pay raises of up to 5.5 percent for some. ...more

March 26, 2009

Fred Palensar of Holiday wants ordinary people, not business executives and ex-politicians, on the utility rate-setting Florida Public Service Commission. ...more

March 7, 2009

Tampa's firefighters will receive a 2.5 percent cost-of-living raise this year as well as an additional 3.5 percent step plan increase for those who qualify. ...more

March 6, 2009

Hernando County firefighters Tuesday found themselves with a new three-year contract after county commissioners approved the pact 4-0. ...more

January 7, 2009

Employers, who as recently as October said they were barely modifying their salary budgets for 2009, have changed their tune in December, this time bringing some workers' projected annual pay raises to a low not seen in three decades. ...more

December 21, 2008

"The Pyramid" (and four other Kurt Wallander mysteries), by Henning Mankell (The New Press, $26.95) ...more

December 21, 2008

Congress shouldn't respond to the Big Three's mistakes with one of its own, and the biggest mistake of all would be to let Detroit drop dead. Lawmakers need to take action to save some of the last good working-class jobs in America and to put a tourniquet on the nation's economic pain. ...more

November 27, 2008