If John McCain becomes president, he will be confronted by a Congress with significantly larger Democratic majorities than today's - majorities furious about high hopes dashed by an eighth Republican victory in 11 presidential elections. And if the normal pattern of off-year elections obtains in 2010, those majorities will expand. So McCain would have to deal with a hostile legislature for four years, as Arnold Schwarzenegger has done for almost five years. For that reason, and because these two self-styled post-partisan, reach-across-the-aisle mavericks admire one another - McCain has given Schwarzenegger a starring role Monday at the Republican convention - it is pertinent to survey Schwarzenegger's governorship of one-eighth of America's population. ...more

August 31, 2008

Despite a slowdown in the shopping center business statwide, developers are planning a few local projects that could bring a Sam's Club to the Riverview area and a Kohl's to western Hillsborough County, among other stores. ...more

August 21, 2008

Why Denver? Why are Democrats holding their national convention next week in the hub of the Rocky Mountains rather than a traditional presidential battleground state such as Florida or Ohio, or some other large-delegate state such as New York? ...more

August 21, 2008

Builders of shopping centers in Florida nearly printed money in the past several years, benefiting from skyrocketing rent and soaring prices for strip malls. ...more

August 19, 2008

Hillsborough County's breakneck growth stumbled from 2006 to 2007, marking the smallest population gain this decade -- fewer people than Polk or Pasco counties. ...more

August 7, 2008

On an evening its rivals were preoccupied with Christie Brinkley's divorce and the capture of a Brooklyn murder suspect, New York's WXTV led its local news with a story about graffiti saying "Get out of the USA" painted near a Peruvian restaurant on Long Island. ...more

August 3, 2008

Windward Homes has changed its name to K. Hovnanian Homes and to celebrate the name change, is offering reduced pricing in all of its 10 Tampa area communities. ...more

August 3, 2008

Spending Disease ...more

July 16, 2008

A new study says global warming and population growth threaten the Southeast's already precarious water supplies by fueling more extreme weather and degrading water quality. ...more

July 12, 2008

When Ridgewood High students return in August, they will find their school undergoing a two-story, $2.5 million expansion. ...more

July 11, 2008