The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is the latest state agency to review a controversial 1 percent pay raise that Hillsborough County Administrator Pat Bean and County Attorney Renee Lee approved for themselves. ...more

October 22, 2009

A citizens panel that advises the Hillsborough County School Board recently weighed the district's proposed budget cuts - and came up with some ideas of its own. ...more

March 25, 2009

A citizens panel that advises the Hillsborough County School Board recently weighed the district's proposed budget cuts – and came up with some ideas of its own. ...more

March 24, 2009

A community group pressed its case last week for the Tampa Sports Authority to complete negotiations with area residents and the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, which has a city contract to operate a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

February 25, 2009

Both the "Landfill A Good Deal for Pasco" (Dec. 26) and the Tom Jackson "Really Green" (Dec. 28) opinions really miss the mark on the dump that is proposed to be built near the Green Swamp, source of the Floridan Aquifer. ...more

January 3, 2009

The public purchase of privately owned Aloha Utilities has been put off until the end of February to help the Florida Governmental Utility Authority secure financing for the deal. ...more

December 13, 2008

The city of Sebring Community Redevelopment Agency board of commissioners will listen to a presentation Monday by Keith and Schnars, a planning company hired to work on the Washington Heights Neighborhood Plan. ...more

December 8, 2008

Project maps and video presentations on display Nov. 18 at The Palmetto Club at FishHawk Ranch impressed Judy Lambert of Brandon, but the traffic and development she witnessed on her way to Lithia astonished her. ...more

November 26, 2008

Project maps and video presentations on display Nov. 18 at The Palmetto Club at FishHawk Ranch impressed Judy Lambert of Brandon, but the traffic and development she witnessed on her way to Lithia astonished her. It had been 20 years since Lambert ventured that far south on Lithia-Pinecrest Road, the perpetually congested commuter route at the center of discussion that night at a Hillsborough County public workshop. ...more

November 20, 2008

A span of the Friendship TrailBridge, popular with joggers and cyclists, was closed Thursday because of safety concerns. It may never reopen. ...more

November 7, 2008