Few buildings in Highlands County are more important than South Florida Community College's auditorium. That's why we support the renovation that board members will vote on this week. Updating and improving this wonderful facility is important to thousands of people in this county, and the rewards for having it is immeasurable. ...more

February 22, 2009

Hillsborough County's elections office is still in deep financial trouble despite getting an emergency $2.2 million allocation today from county commissioners to pay for optical scan voting machines. ...more

February 4, 2009

If there was any doubt that Florida's universities are in trouble, Dean Colson, Gov. Charlie Crists's adviser on higher education, erased it in these remarks to the Florida Board of Governors and university trustees in August: ...more

October 12, 2008

Despite the slumping economy, the city's forecast for its upcoming fiscal year is not all doom and gloom. ...more

September 24, 2008

Despite the slumping economy, the city's forecast for its upcoming fiscal year is not all doom and gloom. ...more

September 19, 2008

The Highlands County School Board tentatively approved its 2008-09 budget with a small increase in the school tax rate. ...more

July 31, 2008

Hillsborough County school officials expect a three-year hiatus on building new schools beginning in 2010-11, including the delay of two planned elementary schools. ...more

July 23, 2008

Hillsborough County property owners may pay a little more in school taxes while the district's budget shrinks. ...more

July 19, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. ...more

June 13, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - A defunct charter school that filed a lawsuit seeking damages against the Pasco County School District instead must pay the district $93,499 that the school owed when it closed in 2003, a circuit judge has ruled. In his ruling, Circuit Court Judge Stanley R. Mills wrote that Deerwood Academy was overpaid when the district gave the school its per-student funding. The school received $292,863, but didn't enroll enough students to earn that amount and should have been given $199,364, Mills wrote. ...more

June 12, 2008