With rising payroll costs creating record budget shortfalls, Mayor Pam Iorio's administration has capped cost-of-living increases for city workers and firefighters. ...more

January 6, 2009

More families than ever are coming to the Brandon Family Support and Resource Center asking for help to find employment and financial aid. ...more

December 24, 2008

The money is better off in the hands of teachers rather than sitting at a bank. ...more

December 11, 2008

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of favoring a socialistic economic approach by supporting tax cuts and tax credits McCain says would merely shuffle wealth rather than creating it. ...more

October 18, 2008

City officials return to the negotiating table today with representatives of Tampa's largest union, just two weeks after the union's membership overwhelmingly voted down a proposed contract over demands for higher wages and other issues. ...more

October 13, 2008

Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday. ...more

October 4, 2008

The city's largest union on Monday overwhelmingly voted down a proposed one-year contract, forcing Mayor Pam Iorio's hand in a simmering dispute over higher wages and a longer contract. ...more

September 30, 2008

The monthly premium for the vast majority of the elderly and disabled participating in Medicare will hold steady at $96.40 next year. It's the first time since 2000 that the charge for health coverage is not increasing. ...more

September 20, 2008

It's hard to find a pony in the pile of sky-high oil prices, given the inflationary impact on the price of everything. ...more

September 1, 2008

WellCare Health Plans Inc. and several other health care companies have notified Florida that they will pull out of a pilot program aimed at providing HMO-style health coverage for Medicaid recipients in two Florida counties outside the Tampa Bay area, state officials said Thursday. ...more

August 28, 2008