Vendor deadline for police catering contract at the Republican National...
By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 16, 2012 TAMPA — It's not unusual for Tampa City Hall to go out for bids on everything from trucks to chemicals for the water treatment plant to...
View ArticleGrand openings, fundraisers and other Hernando business community events
By Jean Hayes, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 16, 2012 Business digest EventsBlue Pelican Marina at 5000 Calienta St., Hernando Beach, will combine its grand opening celebration with a boat show from...
View ArticleBus trip to Austin bolsters startup culture in Tampa Bay
Robert Trigaux, Times Columnist Friday, March 16, 2012 Thank a bus fueled by startup energy for giving Tampa Bay's modest entrepreneurial ecosystem fresh momentum.Thirty people recently piled on to...
View ArticleGiant expansion of Disney's Magic Kingdom features multiattractions galore
By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 16, 2012 LAKE BUENA VISTA — The new Dumbo ride won over Tina Busch after one spin conjured memories of a childhood rite of passage. "It's the first...
View ArticleCFO Atwater: refund advance fees if nuclear plants are not built
By Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer Friday, March 16, 2012 A state Cabinet member says utilities should refund any money they collected in advance from customers for proposed nuclear plants if the...
View ArticleHernando County Airport's new control tower should draw new opportunities
By Dan DeWitt, Times Columnist Saturday, March 17, 2012 If you've ever toured Cape Canaveral, you have a rough — okay, very rough — idea of what it's like to approach the new control tower at the...
View ArticleTech training can create a stronger workforce — and economy
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2012 BROOKSVILLEAs a comprehensive high school, Nature Coast Technical is a hybrid of sorts. With a host of technology to support programs in...
View ArticleOak Hill Hospital is building with room to grow
By Tony Marrero, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2012 SPRING HILL — Mickey Smith likes to start tours of Oak Hill Hospital's major expansion project with a bird's-eye view.The hospital's chief...
View ArticleCounty working on new ways, new events to bring in tourists
By Logan Neill, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2012 BROOKSVILLE — A little more than a year ago, Hernando County's newly hired tourism director, Tammy Heon, faced a daunting task. A prolonged...
View ArticleBe your own boss? Know your abilities, reinvent yourself — and get to work
By Barbara Behrendt, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2012 In late 2010, when Nita Beckwith-Melaugh left her job as executive director of the Greater Dade City Chamber of Commerce, she was...
View ArticleLegislation touted as way to clean up time-share resale industry
By Will Hobson, Times Staff Writer Saturday, March 17, 2012 Three years after consumer complaints against Florida time-share resale companies began a meteoric rise, the state Attorney General's Office...
View ArticleImproving economy complicates Republican message but picture still tough for...
By Alex Leary, Times Staff Writer Sunday, March 18, 2012 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Mitt Romney stood in an industrial manufacturing plant attacking President Barack Obama."He's a nice guy, but he's in over...
View ArticleTampa's Kforce sells clinical research unit for $50 million
Times Staff Monday, March 19, 2012 Kforce Inc. said it will sell its clinical research business subsidiary to inVentiv Health Inc. of Burlington, Mass., for $50 million in cash, as the Tampa staffing...
View ArticleClearwater Jazz Holiday will no longer be free in 2012
By Will Hobson, Times Staff Writer Monday, March 19, 2012 CLEARWATER — Nancy Blacklin checks the lineup for the Clearwater Jazz Holiday every year.If the 80-year-old grandmother sees someone on there...
View ArticleThree Tampa Bay multinationals know when to exit — not just enter...
By Robert Trigaux, Times Business Columnist Monday, March 19, 2012 Globalization's in vogue but some of Tampa Bay's top multinational corporations still chose to pull up stakes recently and exit...
View ArticleEating healthy has been a tough sell
By Mark Albright, Times Staff Writer Monday, March 19, 2012 ORLANDODietitians, doctors, moms and Michelle Obama are all prodding Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. How's it...
View ArticleNew business dean to be named at USF Tampa
By Robert Trigaux, Times Staff Writer Monday, March 19, 2012 TAMPA — The University of South Florida has picked an associate dean at the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business as its...
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Tampa detective testifies on rampant tax fraud, identity theft in Capitol...
Wake up and good morning. Tampa police criminal intelligence bureau detective Sal Augeri is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill this morning in a hearing of the Senate Finance subcommittee on the...
View ArticleTampa Bay construction employment falls to lowest level since 1990
By Jeff Harrington, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Tampa Bay's already-depressed construction industry just crumpled to a new low. For the 12-month period ending in January, the bay area...
View ArticleTaylor Bean ex-CFO latest to plead guilty in mortgage fraud
Times staff Tuesday, March 20, 2012 The former chief financial officer of Ocala's Taylor, Bean and Whitaker, one of the nation's largest private mortgage companies until its 2009 collapse, pleaded...
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