The Internal Revenue Service has $42,268 in refund checks ready to give to 30 Hernando County taxpayers. ...more

November 7, 2009

They are due refunds totaling $42,268. ...more

November 6, 2009

Several months ago I prepared a request to the county's audit services group asking that an audit of the workers compensation department be conducted related to questions that I had on the expenditure of workers compensation reserve dollars on Hernando County Fire's equipment. ...more

November 4, 2009

Your Sept. 15 editorial ("Revisit clinics to cut city's health costs," Our Opinion) on Charlie Miranda's idea to cut city health care costs using worksite clinics reflects one of the fastest-growing trends in America for both employers and government to cut their health care costs. The cost savings can be dramatic, health quality improved, and patient/physician satisfaction is excellent. ...more

September 21, 2009

I am strongly opposed to any creation of new taxing districts, a.k.a. taxing methods such as MTSU, to specialize the collection of taxes for EMS, countywide fire rescue, public schools or any such purpose. ...more

April 23, 2009

Just 10 weeks into her tenure as the county's elections supervisor, Phyllis Busansky continues to benefit from a simple fact: She's not Buddy Johnson. ...more

March 19, 2009

A government of the people, for the people and by the people. We are no longer a democratic government. Somewhere along the line, we have a dictator type of rule, where those we have elected, "our employees," have taken control. ...more

March 17, 2009

Inmates are being kept in stitches through a sewing program the Pasco Sheriff's Office has started. The program teaches prisoners a vocational skill while cutting costs at the jails by patching mattresses and other items, according to a press release today from Tim Couet, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. ...more

March 5, 2009

Within six months, the roughly 500 customers of the problem plagued Landmark Utilities sewage plant should be hooked into the city sanitary sewer system. ...more

March 5, 2009

To Highlands County commissioners: There is little doubt that most people understand the important values that trees have in our quality of life. For example: Trees increase property values, reduce cooling costs, reduce air pollution, reduce water usage, reduce run-off and according to facts contained in an official publication by Florida Power, "trees properly located along traffic corridors slow traffic thereby reducing road rage." ...more

February 26, 2009