Bus riders will get a smoother ride next year thanks to millions in federal stimulus funding. ...more

February 25, 2009

The financial forecast for Hillsborough County schools likely will get worse – even with a stimulus of federal money – and administrators will have to explore ways to cut even deeper, the district's superintendent said today. ...more

February 24, 2009

Hillsborough Area Regional Transit is poised to get $15.1 million and says it will use some of the cash to buy 29 buses and refurbish 124 others. ...more

February 24, 2009

Florida unemployment compensation benefits are increasing by $25 a week due to federal stimulus funding. ...more

February 23, 2009

The leaders of Germany, Britain, France and other European nations called Sunday for the resources of the International Monetary Fund to double, to $500 billion, to help head off new problems in countries already hit hard by the global economic and financial crisis. ...more

February 23, 2009

"Won't Get Fooled Again." All the aging hippies in Florida ought to dust off their copy and have a listen. ...more

February 18, 2009

The opposing points of view expressed by writers Amity Shlaes and Karl Frisch regarding the effectiveness of FDR's New Deal policies (Views, Feb. 15) resulted in a textbook conservative vs. liberal comparison on the debate of issues in 2009 American politics. ...more

February 18, 2009

Medicaid An additional $4.3 billion in funding over two years for the insurance program that, in Florida, serves about 2.2 million low-income families and individuals - half of them children - as well as people with disabilities. The $4.3 billion would reflect a boost from 55.4 percent to 67.8 percent in the rate at which the federal government matches what Florida spends on Medicaid. ...more

February 13, 2009

In a measure of how quickly its options are shrinking, the United States is about to embrace an economic theory that widely was thought to have been discredited for most of the last generation: the idea that great bursts of deficit-funded government expenditure can jolt an economy back to growth. ...more

February 9, 2009

Hernando County commissioners on Wednesday will discuss an early leave retirement plan for employees. ...more

February 7, 2009