Pasco County officials say they will protest plans to create a private water utility serving thousands of acres in northeast Pasco and Hernando counties. ...more

November 5, 2009

Highlands County still doesn't have the $1.65 million asphalt plant grant that was promised by Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and county commissioners were furious because they just found out during a meeting Tuesday. ...more

November 4, 2009

The speed limit on Meadow Pointe Boulevard is going up. Pasco County commissioners Tuesday morning approved a plan to raise the speed limit for the two-lane road to 45 mph between State Road 54 and Sheringham Way and to 40 mph south to Beardsley Drive. ...more

November 4, 2009

Ejay Metayer drove from the University of South Florida area Friday morning to take a law enforcement test at the Fred B. Karl County Center downtown. ...more

October 31, 2009

The federal government should lead the battle to provide benefits for veterans, not Pasco County, officials here say. ...more

October 30, 2009

The federal government should lead the battle to provide benefits for veterans, not Pasco County, officials here say. ...more

October 28, 2009

A Sept. 2 news article on preferences for local firms for county contracts contained some problems, according to Assistant County Administrator Daniel R. Johnson. ...more

September 9, 2009

Here we are with deficits due to the over spending of our tax dollars over the past five years and now we have both an assistant county administrator and an assistant superintendant of schools. ...more

July 3, 2009

The Hillsborough County Commission instructed its staff Wednesday to begin preparing a referendum on a 1-cent sales tax increase for transportation projects, including light rail. ...more

April 2, 2009

If something we read recently is correct, then the old saw about the Chinese ideogram for the word crisis being made up of one element denoting danger and the other opportunity is wrong. Regardless, Pasco County is facing a bit of a budget crisis because of falling revenue. So while the county's taxing and spending status quo appears in danger, Pasco officials are taking the opportunity to take a look at how Pasco will change over the next few years and how county government will fit into that change. ...more

April 1, 2009