It is strange but perhaps not unexpected that as oil price soars to record highs, alternative fuel opponents have been beating the drums. They have to beat them pretty hard to drown out the cries of pain at gas pumps around the world. ...more

May 13, 2008

In a generally ignorant anti-environmentalist screed, your guest columnist, Colin Flaherty, blames environmentalists for problems that are really caused by markets. ...more

May 2, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA More Local Foreclosures Hillsborough County's foreclosure spike is continuing into 2008, says a firm that collects data on the litigation that starts the foreclosure process. Default Research of Mount Pleasant, Pa., tracked 919 Hillsborough lis pendens court petitions in January, up 9.7 percent from 838 cases in December. The firm does not collect data on other area counties. The news comes after another firm listed Florida as second in the nation for its 2007 foreclosure rate of more than 2 percent. ...more

February 15, 2008

TAMPA - A $13.6 million expansion of Hillsborough County's waste-to-energy plant will go forward despite opposition from a county commissioner who said the contract is flawed. ...more

February 6, 2008

If the Tampa Bay area develops a detailed mass transit plan, the area can benefit from perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money, the head of Denver's transit agency told the city council. ...more

November 16, 2007

Back in 2005, in an apparent flight of fancy, analysts at Goldman Sachs predicted a "super-spike" in the oil price to $105 a barrel. In the last few days, the prediction came as close as it ever has to fulfillment. ...more

November 12, 2007

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said rising oil prices will lead businesses and consumers worldwide to use less fossil fuel and increase their use of alternative energy sources. ...more

November 8, 2007

CLEARWATER - Sales are still declining but inventory has stabilized, and the slumping Tampa Bay area housing market should turn around by the end of spring, the National Association of Realtors' top economist said Thursday. ...more

October 4, 2007