Pasco County commissioners have hired an Orlando-based law firm specializing in labor negotiations to handle future contract talks with the county's unionized firefighters. ...more

October 22, 2009

Circuit City Stores Inc. has received court approval to sell off its Canadian operations as word came that the company faces a class-action lawsuit by lawyers claiming some laid-off employees were not paid federally mandated WARN Act payments. ...more

March 27, 2009

Back in early November, I wrote about a nifty new gadget, the EasyBloom Plant Sensor. Stick the sensor in the ground and it gathers information about light, drainage and other conditions. Then plug it into your computer. The software combines the sensor data with climate and weather information for your ZIP code and pops out lists of plants that should like that spot. ...more

March 20, 2009

Citing a desire to reward his employees, a Miami banker doled out $60 million in bonuses to all staffers and even some retirees after he sold a majority stake in the company for close to $1 billion. ...more

February 16, 2009

Parents and students might want to check those book bags one more time. ...more

January 11, 2009

Highlands County Administrator Michael Wright said he will answer questions raised at Tuesday's county commission meeting about the county's dumping of fill material on a private property in late 2007. ...more

January 7, 2009

Parents and students might want to check those book bags one more time before the holiday break is over for an important piece of information that was distributed at several area schools. It could save a lot of confusion at the start of the next school year. Brochures were distributed among ninth- and 10th-graders at Gulf and Mitchell high schools and to students at Gulf, Paul R. Smith and Seven Springs middle schools in anticipation of the opening of Anclote High School at the start of the 2009-10 school year. ...more

December 31, 2008

Tom Bryan was making plans to celebrate the Friendship TrailBridge's 10th anniversary when he learned in early November that the popular recreational trail was closing because of structural problems. ...more

December 24, 2008

Friends of the Friendship Trail and Bridge will meet tonight to discuss the bridge's history, status and future, and a big part of the discussion will be the range of estimated costs for repairing or replacing it. ...more

December 18, 2008

Preliminary estimates of how much it would cost to repair the partially closed Friendship Trail bridge range from $11 million to fix both ends of the structure to $82 million to knock down the existing bridge and build a new one. ...more

December 18, 2008