Board votes 3-0 to approve millage rate of 7.78 ...more

July 30, 2008

We're sure the good folks at Wendy's worked long hours and invested great amounts of sweat equity into their new product. No doubt millions were spent on R&D and focus groups and marketing budgets and awareness campaigns and restaurant staff training. All to jump feet-first into the very crowded and very lucrative breakfast market. ...more

July 30, 2008

It's not going to be an easy year. That's the word from the members of the Hernando County School Board, who voted 3-0 Tuesday during their first budget hearing to approve a proposed millage rate of 7.78, which will generate $84.4 million in tax revenues at 95 percent collections. ...more

July 30, 2008

Call it the Summer of the Virtual Classroom. Years of growth in online education at Florida's colleges and universities have led to unprecedented spikes in enrollment this summer, and the momentum is building faster for the fall. ...more

July 27, 2008

Being an Avon Park City Council member is tough work these days. They are tasked with figuring out how to cut large amounts our of the city's budget for next year. It's a job a lot of our elected city and county officials are dealing with these days, and will continue for some time to come. ...more

July 22, 2008

Twenty-five Pinellas County sheriff's deputies are to lose their jobs as of Aug. 8, but all they have to do to land a job elsewhere is look across Tampa Bay. ...more

July 11, 2008

LARGO - Twenty-five Pinellas sheriff's deputies are to lose their jobs as of Aug. 8, but all they have to do to land a job elsewhere is look across Tampa Bay. ...more

July 10, 2008

The Vatican ran a deficit in 2007, hurt by the weak dollar in collection baskets from U.S. faithful and steep costs of running its media, the Holy See said Wednesday. ...more

July 10, 2008

Does $4 gas hurt? How about $4 for a pound of sugar from Fidel Castro? Get ready! ...more

July 3, 2008

A Bad Amendment As most of you have read in the newspapers and watched on television, Amendment 1 was not all that was promised. I did not vote for this half-baked form of legislation for the various reasons I am about to explain. ...more

July 2, 2008