J.D. Power study gives automobiles best reliability score ever
Detroit Free Press Wednesday, February 15, 2012 DETROIT Four out of the top 10 brands in J.D. Power's reliability study are from Ford or General Motors, and their performance contributed to the...
View ArticleLabor monitor selected by Apple called just a 'fig leaf'
New York Times Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Apple's announcement on Monday that an outside monitoring group, the Fair Labor Association, has begun inspecting its suppliers' factories in China rekindled...
View ArticleTampa Bay foreclosures fell last month
By Times Staff Thursday, February 16, 2012 Foreclosure filings remained nearly flat last month in the Tampa Bay are. The number of bay area properties in some phase of the foreclosure process — a...
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Budget farce: This Tally senator's scolding protesting USF students from an...
Wake up and good morning. Kudos to the Tampa Bay business community's rallying -- thus far -- around the University of South Florida in the face of the Neanderthal extortion tactics by lame duck Senate...
View ArticleDeciding who pays repair bill could delay the reopening of the Crystal River...
By Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer Thursday, February 16, 2012 Progress Energy no longer thinks its insurer will "voluntarily pay" the full cost of repairing the broken Crystal River nuclear plant, a...
View ArticleBlue Man Group unveils new Orlando show, extends its stay
By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer Thursday, February 16, 2012 ORLANDO — Text messages and tablet computers have grown influential enough for Blue Man Group satire."These devices have changed our...
View ArticleGuy Harvey brings fishing brand to St. Pete Beach TradeWinds resort
By Terry Tomalin, Times Outdoors-Fitness Editor Thursday, February 16, 2012 ST. PETE BEACH — World-renowned marine artist Guy Harvey plans to rebrand the TradeWinds Sandpiper Suites with his signature...
View ArticleTwo companies at Airport Industrial Park collaborate on runway closure project
By Logan Neill, Times Staff Writer Thursday, February 16, 2012 BROOKSVILLE — While necessity may be the mother of invention, it doesn't hurt when the solution to a problem lies within walking...
View ArticleGM's profits soar to record high
Associated Press Thursday, February 16, 2012 DETROIT — Just two years after it was rescued and reconstituted through bankruptcy and a government bailout, General Motors cruised through 2011 to post the...
View ArticleBill would affect pay for servers and bartenders
By Kameel Stanley, Times Staff Writer Thursday, February 16, 2012 Cindy Berg remembers the days when she could pay all her bills from restaurant tips.Those days are long gone, said Berg, who has been a...
View ArticleSettlement, House bill could fast-track Florida foreclosures
By Toluse Olorunnipa, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Friday, February 17, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Faster foreclosures could be coming to Florida.A landmark $26 billion settlement with large banks over...
View ArticleNew 300-unit apartment complex planned for downtown St. Petersburg
By Stephen Nohlgren, Times Staff Writer Friday, February 17, 2012 ST. PETERSBURG — With luxury condominiums selling well along St. Petersburg's waterfront, downtown real estate may soon get a boost...
View ArticleMore investors put cash in rental homes
By Katherine Snow Smith, Times Staff Writer Friday, February 17, 2012 Homes are going to contract in less than a day. Buyers are paying above asking price. Yes, right here in Pinellas County. No, it's...
View ArticleMy First Car: '30 Ford Model A, Dominick DellaSala, 81, Hudson
Friday, February 17, 2012 '30 Ford Model A This is my first car that I bought in 1948 when I was 18. It was a 1930 Ford Model A, and I paid $60. I drove the car for three years until I was drafted...
View ArticleEmpty storefronts: the vacancy rates keeps getting better
By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer Friday, February 17, 2012 The retail vacancy rate in Tampa Bay has improved as shopping center landlords see their business perking up from a slump now in its...
View ArticleWill $4 gas put a deep dent in our thin economic recovery?
By Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist Friday, February 17, 2012 Four years ago, Tampa Bay gas prices hovered in the mid $3.60s and peaked at a modern record of $4.009 on July 16, 2008, amid great...
View ArticleJPMorgan Chase CEO says its time to move past financial blame game
By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Friday, February 17, 2012 TAMPA Rolling in a sleek, silver motor home through the streets of north Tampa, Jamie Dimon epitomizes a man on the move. Or, to be more...
View ArticleCounty officials eye Bass Pro Shops for east Hillsborough
By Bill Varian, Times Staff Writer Friday, February 17, 2012 TAMPA — Its arrival in these parts has been rumored for so long it's taken on almost mythical status, like some fabled 16-point buck seen at...
View ArticleLittle political will to reform state-run Citizens Property
By Toluse Olorunnipa, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Saturday, February 18, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — For six years, Mother Nature has granted Florida uncommon tranquility along its 1,200-mile coastline,...
View ArticleMy First Car: '63 Corvette, Tim Robinson, 54, Floral City
Monday, February 20, 2012 '63 CorvetteMy father purchased this 1963 Corvette in 1972 for $1,400. I was 14 at the time and it was a thrill to venture the back country roads of western Wisconsin with...
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