If you have lost your job or are facing a layoff, you need a plan for coping financially. This is especially true if you haven't been able to build an emergency fund or you've been living too high and have never considered there might be a disruption in your income. ...more

June 15, 2008

The eyes bore like small lasers. The shoulders are wide and chiseled. A cap pulled down hard carries a trademarked TW. Tiger Woods stepped confidently and effortlessly - no limp - into the U.S. Open media interview tent at Torrey Pines. ...more

June 11, 2008

Rally Size Didn't Matter Regarding "The Audacity Of Hype" (Our Opinion, May 21): ...more

May 28, 2008

Just getting back in the Rays' lineup after more than a month on the shelf might have been enough for Cliff Floyd, but collecting RBI singles in his first two at-bats was something else entirely. ...more

May 12, 2008

If Pasco County schools Superintendent Heather Fiorentino can persuade the school board to avoid a single layoff, maintain current salaries and not touch any classroom programs to combat an anticipated $16 million budget shortfall, she should be administrator of the year. ...more

May 11, 2008

Johnny Collins, longtime farm trainer at Live Oak Plantation in Ocala, might know Revved Up better than anyone. Collins has known Revved Up since the horse was born there. ...more

May 4, 2008

One of the city's largest employers, James Hardie Building Products , laid off 30 temporary and 49 full-time workers last week, citing the downturn in the construction industry. ...more

May 3, 2008

Recently, the county commission decided to dismiss action on a proposed impact fee stimulus package. Charitably, it was not a good policy. A number of factors clearly illustrated that it would have jeopardized the local economy rather than stimulated it. That concept energized the following brief history of how such concepts affected working people in this country. Over a hundred years ago, President Teddy Roosevelt busted the robber barons. They had a stranglehold on workingmen. They dictated the price they paid for labor. Men worked 12 hour days, seven days a week for low wages with no vacations or sick leave. They worked till they dropped, 365 days a year. In the next 100 years, through bloody wars, goon squads and sheer persistence, working conditions improved. The '30s and '40s were pivotal decades in that slow process of working people earning a "piece of the pie," but they had to struggle to maintain the progress so bitterly fought for. The idea of "helping" the developers and construction industry "stimulate" the economy triggered recall of that history. Unions were formed to help workers collectively demand and earn better wages and work conditions. They gained those rights, but had to fight to keep them. In the '50s, the U.S. Congress passed laws to correct a flaw "discovered" in the wages and pension package. ...more

May 2, 2008

A month ago, trainer Jamie Ness said his prized sprinter, Lookinforthesecret, would not run longer than six furlongs at the current Tampa Bay Downs meet. But today they will be looking for the distance in the seven-furlong, $75,000 Super Stakes. ...more

February 9, 2008