A SOUND ECONOMY

More than 400 people from 37 Florida counties met recently in Orlando for the Citizens for a Sound Economy Issues 2000 forum. Among them were Polk Countians Cathy Phillips, Ann…

ORACLE ADMITS IT HAD MICROSOFT INVESTIGATED

Microsoft lashed out at Oracle Corp. yesterday after the California firm acknowledged it hired a prominent detective firm to investigate groups sympathetic to the Redmond software maker. Oracle's efforts…

Bonds might get old foes’ support

RALEIGH -- Wake County's new $ 550 million school construction plan won the conditional endorsement Friday of an advisory committee that includes key opponents of last year's failed bond issue.

Group assails refund delay

A small group of Republican lawmakers and indignant taxpayers gathered in front of the Department of Revenue on Thursday to protest the roughly 100,000 individual tax refunds still in state…