Businesses with state contracts would be required to use an electronic verification system to ferret out illegal immigrants seeking jobs under a bill moving through the Legislature. ...more

March 26, 2009

We are facing difficult times with gas prices rising nearly every day, the stock market falling precipitously, food prices rising, floods and tornados in the heartland and other disasters. ...more

July 5, 2008

Once one of the state's biggest road contractors, Michael Cone will spend the next 20 years behind bars, undone, a judge said, by his greed and sheer inability to tell the truth. ...more

May 3, 2008

TAMPA – Once one of the state's biggest road contractors, Michael Cone will spend the next 20 years behind bars, undone, a judge said, by his greed and sheer inability to tell the truth. ...more

May 2, 2008

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum should scrutinize the cozy relationship between state transportation officials and the railroad industry that is being given hundreds of millions of dollars in state funds. ...more

January 25, 2008

SARASOTA - The Sarasota Family YMCA's top foster care administrator officially resigned from the agency today. ...more

December 10, 2007

Imagine you are a teenage foster child who has been in the system so long you have little or no memory of your biological parents. ...more

December 4, 2007

TAMPA - The Sarasota Family YMCA will voluntarily end its contract next summer to run child welfare services in Pinellas and Pasco counties. In exchange for agreeing to step away from those counties, the YMCA will receive a one-year extension of its contract to provide similar services in DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota counties. ...more

November 6, 2007