The Issue: Limiting Citizen Input And Reducing The Number Of County Commission Meetings Each Month. Our Opinion: Bad Ideas. ...more

February 19, 2009

More than a month after work was supposed to start on one of Wesley Chapel's busiest intersections, a company involved in the project says it will be another month before improvements begin. ...more

February 18, 2009

Highlands County is looking for a new housing director - again. Nancy Hurley left the position on Friday, becoming the second person to resign as housing director in the past nine months. ...more

February 18, 2009

Club Elite's Web site boasts that it's "Tampa Bay's Premier Swingers Club." ...more

February 17, 2009

A county clerk in Colorado has a simple response to staff cuts caused by budget shortfalls: Just don't answer the phones. ...more

February 17, 2009

Officials say the mobile home where a repeat sex offender raped and murdered a 9-year-old Florida girl in 2005 has burned down. ...more

February 16, 2009

Every year, the Hillsborough County School District sends Tampa, Plant City, Hillsborough County and the Florida Department of Transportation a laundry list of areas deemed hazardous for kids who don't qualify for busing and have to walk to school. The hazards include streets where there are no sidewalks, busy intersections and traffic chocked roads that school officials want the DOT and local governments to improve. ...more

February 15, 2009

Blame it on the strawberries. The recent cold snap that had Plant City farmers pumping ground water to spray onto their berries has caused a rash of sinkholes: on Whitelaw Road, Moore Lake Road, Gallagher Road, Sydney Road, Lone Oak Road and Drawdy Road. ...more

February 15, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist said Friday he won't order any state agencies to investigate former Hillsborough County Elections Supervisor Buddy Johnson, preferring instead to let federal investigators take the lead. ...more

February 14, 2009