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HART's plans for Downtown Tampa light rail still undecided

Brian Willis of Connect Tampa Bay on Hillsborough County's Transit needs

To commemorate May Day, about 50 community activists gathered at Voice of Freedom Park in West Tampa last night.

More than 300 job seekers and dozens of employers converged on a job fair in New Port Richey, where many residents say they are finding it difficult to find work outside of the service industry....

Friday morning police told Occupy Tampa to take down parts of their sidewalk camp outside Curtis-Hixon Park. Tables and canopies have been removed, but the protesters are still allowed to stay and sleep. Last Sunday...

Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement for democracy that began on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. A Tampa group began similar protests against financial institutions at...

Jobs, not cuts, was the message of protesters today, outside Congressional offices across the country. About two dozen activists protested outside Senator Marco Rubio’s office near USF-Tampa. The progressive nonprofit advocacy group Moveon.org called on...

While the Tampa Bay Region struggles with record highs in unemployment, regional planners are working out ways to attract new business. This morning the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council reviewed a possible new business plan...

President Barack Obama and congressional leaders from both major parties have come to an agreement on a proposed budget deal that would cut trillions of federal dollars from the national budget over the next decade....

This morning, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn presented his preliminary city budget for fiscal year 2012. This is the new mayor’s first proposed budget. Buckhorn pitched the budget to the City Council in downtown. Mayor Buckhorn...