Recent tax cuts have Hillsborough County pruning its landscaping budget. After announcing in March the county would stop paying to maintain foliage on five state highways, two landscapers stepped in to do the work in exchange for signs promoting their businesses. ...more

October 6, 2008

The city council voted to ban panhandling, charity collections and newspaper sales on medians along city streets, rejecting pleas from people who said they will lose money in the move. ...more

October 2, 2008

Long-awaited landscaping of medians along Tarpon and Pinellas avenues will begin earlier than first anticipated. ...more

September 20, 2008

Port Richey City Council will meet Wednesday. ...more

August 26, 2008

It turned a ragged section of U.S. 19, flanked by pawnshops, strip malls and derelict properties, into a corridor of lantana, palm trees and other flora. ...more

August 23, 2008

Plans for improvements to U.S. 19 in Pasco County will be unveiled at an Aug. 28 public hearing. ...more

August 13, 2008

Maybe you haven't noticed, maybe you have. State highways in Polk and Hillsborough counties are getting a little shaggy around the edges. The reasons grass is not getting its usual trim vary. ...more

August 7, 2008

Tick, tick, tick. The official countdown clock in Tiananmen Square hits "4 Days To Go" today. More than 40 million potted flowers are in bloom everywhere, even along the center medians of gritty highways. And for several days now, blue skies have taken the place of the usual gray smog. ...more

August 4, 2008

The new flyover bridge at Interstate 75 and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard is supposed to make life easier for commuters. ...more

August 4, 2008

Unnamed landscaper negotiating to take over maintenance of S.R. 60 medians. ...more

July 25, 2008