State Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa, weighed in on the Dade City landfill controversy Tuesday, filing legislation that would severely restrict where new landfills could be built in Florida. ...more

December 5, 2007

If a single attribute can describe the Hillsborough Legislative Delegation, it would be patience. The state lawmakers we've elected are an indefatigable bunch. ...more

November 26, 2007

Planning commissioners declined to allow the expansion of a controversial group home on Fort King Road after neighbors raised concerns that residents at the facility weren't being properly monitored. ...more

November 8, 2007

Joan Drolle of New Port Richey says the state has provided no relief when it comes to property taxes. ...more

November 7, 2007

but no more. I pay three times the taxes of homesteaders. I can no longer afford it. Place after place is for sale, and it's little wonder. ...more

November 3, 2007

It's rare when an industry asks the government to step in and have a say on how it conducts business. ...more

October 28, 2007

Faulty Logic Regarding 'Bangkok Seems Destined To Slip Below The Rising Sea' (Nation/World, Oct. 21): ...more

October 27, 2007

Two state senators who came together last year to criticize the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority have opposite views over the authority's recent effort to hire an outside lobbyist. ...more

October 24, 2007

Five or six years ago housing prices took off in Florida. Our nice four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath house began to look like a brilliant investment, made even better by the Save Our Homes tax cap. ...more

October 11, 2007