With the Senate expected to narrowly approve its version of an economic stimulus bill, lawmakers from the House and Senate will face difficult negotiations over spending for tax cuts, education and aid for local governments. ...more

February 8, 2009

With unemployment, food scares and demands on food banks all up, the time is now for an organic revolution. President Obama and Congress are currently considering a massive financial stimulus package to rescue our economy. Absent from the discussion has been any reference to supporting a sustainable and organic food system. ...more

February 4, 2009

Florida Republicans from the Tampa Bay area and elsewhere are questioning whether the state would get its fair share of the $819 billion stimulus package the House passed Wednesday. ...more

January 30, 2009

Mayor Pam Iorio has submitted a list of $695 million in projects she hopes will be considered as part of President-elect Barack Obama's federal stimulus package. ...more

January 17, 2009

Extraordinary times require extraordinary actions, the experts say. That's why President-elect Barack Obama is pushing for tax cuts and government spending. This runs counter to how most of us think, considering that the last thing any of us would do is dig deeper in debt when debt is what's sinking us in the first place. But many people much smarter than most of us say this is necessary. ...more

January 7, 2009

Could all this economic mayhem actually be healthy on some level, or is that some lame attempt at finding a silver lining on something that has no upside? It's difficult to say there is a bright side, but it's clear we were drowning in phony numbers and a day of reckoning was long overdue. Perhaps the surprise is that it took so long for it to happen. ...more

December 19, 2008

A year ago, most Americans would never have thought "bailout" would become a household phrase. Today, it is not only heard on a daily basis, it's also attached to billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars. As our government continues down a slippery slope of spending in record amounts to plug the dam before it breaks, this term is one that should more readily be classified as a four-letter word by the American people. ...more

December 17, 2008

Investigators pouring over Bernard Madoff's books said they have discovered the money manager falsified documents to hide massive losses to investors in a fraud case that could take months to unravel, an official helping to oversee the firm's liquidation said. ...more

December 17, 2008

Raymond James Financial Inc. said it had no history of marketing Madoff Investment Securities and no known exposure to the alleged Ponzi scheme that may cost investors billions of dollars. The St. Petersburg-based financial services company responded in a news release to a CNBC report on Friday that the brokerage had marketed funds in which Madoff was involved. ...more

December 16, 2008

The federal government is soon going to be allocating billions of dollars for cities to build rail projects, both as part of the new transportation bill and as a one-time economic stimulus to help the economy. ...more

December 14, 2008