The stage is set for Wednesday's showdown at County Center. Today's noontime deadline for Hillsborough County Administrator Pat Bean, County Attorney Renee Lee and Internal Performance Auditor Jim Barnes to resign came and went with all three of the appointed officials showing no signs of stepping down, according to county commission staff. ...more

March 16, 2010

Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators subpoenaed members of Hillsborough County Attorney Renee Lee's staff Friday and seized e-mail messages related to an ongoing inquiry of pay raises, officials confirm. ...more

March 13, 2010

A Republican political consultant has filed an ethics complaint with the Florida Bar against Hillsborough County Attorney Renee Lee. ...more

March 12, 2010

The county administrator took a polygraph test. The county attorney brought her lawyer. And the county auditor proclaimed his innocence and said he wouldn't resign. ...more

March 11, 2010

Hillsborough County commissioners are calling for an investigation into allegations that someone from County Administrator Pat Beans' office has been prying into their e-mail messages and those from the internal auditor's office. ...more

March 6, 2010

Thinking that his general counsel was siding with a new board member who was critical of him, Tampa International Airport director Louis Miller yelled at airport lawyer Gigi Rechel for making recommendations about doing business in public, e-mail messages from Rechel to an outside attorney released Friday indicate. ...more

March 6, 2010

Julie Garcia spent a day and a half glued to her cell phone and reports of the devastating earthquake in Chile, hoping for some shred of news about her 29-year-old daughter. ...more

March 1, 2010

The last time I checked, the percentage of Floridians looking for work was scary, as was the growing number who either had given up looking or were making do with part-time jobs. At the same time rising insurance costs - or even the ability of Floridians to get insurance of any kind - was daunting. ...more

February 28, 2010

About 40 people gathered Feb. 11 at the South Shore Business Park to see what Fred Jacobsen and Jim Hosler were up to. For weeks they'd been sending out e-mail messages announcing the formation of a new group aimed at bringing new business to South Shore. ...more

February 22, 2010

When commissioners denied a bid for expansion, it recalled that Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary had reneged on a promise made more than a decade ago. ...more

January 25, 2010