Our biggest impediment to the free market is the government. They either over control or overlook responsibilities established by themselves. Their inefficient means of conducting business is sending us citizens into debt slavery while they bale out their Bubbas and leave us for shark bait. ...more

December 18, 2008

Ann Taylor will be moving out of St. Petersburg's BayWalk shopping center in January, the center's owner said. ...more

December 17, 2008

Ann Taylor will be moving out of St. Petersburg's BayWalk shopping center in January, the center's owner said. Developer Fred Bullard, who owns BayWalk, said the women's fashion store had a clause in its lease that allowed it to leave the center if the store's sales fell below a certain level. ...more

December 16, 2008

Foreclosures plague the nation. Here's the data for November. 1 in 173 ...more

December 11, 2008

A record one in 10 American homeowners with a mortgage were either at least a month behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September as the source of housing market pressure shifted to the crumbling U.S. economy. ...more

December 6, 2008

Firefighters and social workers scrambled today to relocate the last occupants of a hotel where the electricity was turned off because of an unpaid bill of $45,000. The power at the JMS Hotel, 4601 34th St. S., was turned off a week ago today, said Lt. Joel Granata, spokesman for St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue. ...more

December 3, 2008

After sending numerous notices and imposing a collection of fines, Westchase leaders are taking the next step and trying to evict a household of residents. ...more

December 2, 2008

A four-bedroom, 2,952-square-foot town home in the sought-after FishHawk Ranch neighborhood has been sitting empty for more than a year. ...more

November 30, 2008