A Judicial Complex RFP Evaluation Team meeting will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16 in the Hernando County Commission chambers' meeting room, 20 N. Main Street, Brooksville. ...more

January 14, 2009

Legislation is in the works to extend the two-year freeze on Citizens Property Insurance homeowner policy rate increases Florida lawmakers imposed on the state's insurer of last resort. ...more

January 13, 2009

So many people are struggling in Florida. I had to cash in a retirement account to pay my property taxes this year. I cannot deplete my retirement account just to pay taxes to live in a house I worked for all my life to own. Please use the special session to cut taxes and government spending. Please ask Sen. Atwater to allow the 1.35 percent tax cap on the ballot this year. We need our leaders to work for us. Our citizens need relief now. ...more

January 10, 2009

While it may be comforting to know that our elected officials in Tallahassee are very concerned regarding the morality of its citizens in regard to gambling, I am at a loss to understand the following: Isn't the Florida Lottery gambling? It is the most easily accessible of all. Every store and gas station, etc. sells them and boy do they sell them! Where is the outrage regarding this? If you seek other forms of gambling most of us have to travel by bus, boat, plane or train out of the state or beyond the three mile limit. Now I certainly have nothing against the Florida Lottery but if the Seminole Casino in Tampa can benefit our state with millions of dollars of needed revenue, why lose it to other states? Of course, we all know that gambling can be abused just like overeating, drinking and buying things we cannot afford, etc. But some things are just plain fun and enjoyed by many, so I say let it be. Also, as you know the Powerball was just introduced to the lottery; I heard no objections to that. ...more

January 10, 2009

Ronald Anthony Favorite, who investigators say used fake Tampa Electric Co. identification to get Hillsborough County residents to pay him their bills, has been arrested. ...more

January 8, 2009

High school seniors who are U.S. citizens and will be attending an accredited U.S. college or university full time next fall are encouraged to apply for the Most Valuable Student Scholarship offered by the Elks National Foundation. ...more

January 7, 2009

John Chase of Palm Harbor says Joan Atkins, in her letter to the editor, overstates magnitude of the shift to the political left Barack Obama will produce. ...more

December 27, 2008

Mr. Watson's recent letter just typifies the liberal mindset with which we are so grievously afflicted. I suppose it is perfectly appropriate to vilify and demonize our president for the past eight years and to trash and ridicule the decent and honorable American citizen, Sarah Palin, but God forbid that we should say anything negative about the Democratic "Messiah." ...more

December 27, 2008

People with concerns about medical care, coverage and costs may attend a health care reform discussion at 10 a.m. today at Bloomingdale Regional Public Library. ...more

December 20, 2008

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Officials say Florida's prison population has topped 100,000 for the first time, making it only the third state in the nation to break into six digits. ...more

December 19, 2008