Lori Bukaweski kicked back and chatted casually with her tablemates Oct. 22 at Crowne Plaza Tampa East while the winners were announced. ...more

November 4, 2009

State Attorney Willie Meggs says former House Speaker Ray Sansom lied to a grand jury when he testified that a proposed Northwest Florida State College airport hangar wouldn't be used for by any private entity. ...more

May 27, 2009

Legislation that would guarantee public access to any Florida beach moved forward in the state House on Tuesday. ...more

March 25, 2009

Legislation that would guarantee public access to any Florida beach moved forward in the state House today. ...more

March 24, 2009

When a former employee filed a lawsuit against the Tampa Sports Authority in 2008, executive director Henry Saavedra waited months before telling the authority's board. ...more

March 13, 2009

A member of the Tampa Sports Authority's Board Executive Committee wants to fire the authority's long-time director, Henry Saavedra. ...more

March 12, 2009

No, the headline above isn't asking you what you're doing. Instead, it is a question county officials are asking Pinellas residents as they decide how to deal with a projected revenue shortfall for the 2010 fiscal year. ...more

February 28, 2009

A public forum Wednesday, Oct. 1, will help determine if the former Baptist Church property along Orange Lake might be converted into a Performing Arts and Cultural Center. ...more

September 25, 2008

Mosaic Fertilizer has withdrawn from a nonprofit company that wants to pipe millions of gallons of wastewater daily from Tampa and Hillsborough County to customers in eastern Hillsborough and Polk County. ...more

June 7, 2008

Next week the Hillsborough County Commission will vote on spending $40 million of county taxpayers' dollars on a questionable project: a new sports park. How they can justify this at a time of budget cuts elsewhere is puzzling. ...more

September 28, 2007