County commissioners have made it substantially easier for neighborhoods to get speed humps and other traffic control devices installed on residential streets. ...more

June 21, 2008

A judge's recommendation last month that St. Joseph's Hospital should build a new regional hospital on Big Bend Road puts a crinkle in South Bay Hospital's plans to build across from the site. ...more

June 16, 2008

ILLINOIS - A school bus driver and amateur artist from the Chicago suburb of Zion has legally changed his name to "In God We Trust." ...more

June 15, 2008

Hillsborough County's traffic division and Lake Forest residents are working together to reduce speeding in the neighborhood. ...more

June 14, 2008

LAKE FOREST - Hillsborough County's traffic division and Lake Forest residents are working together to reduce speeding in the neighborhood. County staffers met last week with neighborhood residents to discuss solutions to the speeding problem on Lake Forest Drive. Traffic division director Mike McCarthy said people at the meeting voted to install a series of speed tables on Lake Forest Drive just north of Tall Tree Drive. ...more

June 9, 2008

TAMPA - Progress Energy said this morning that it has selected a path for 200 miles of high-voltage power lines that would cut across several counties, including northern Hillsborough County. ...more

May 20, 2008

NEW PORT RICHEY -- "I have goose bumps," Holiday resident Cynthia Besio said Friday when she first heard the news Wal-Mart will abandon plans to build a store at S.R. 54 and Grand Boulevard. ...more

May 9, 2008

The race for the 5th District Congressional seat just got a lot more interesting. ...more

May 3, 2008

I didn't think the disposal of 100 billion plastic bags a year in this country was all that much. Los Angeles, however, does and is apparently leading the country in adopting legislation to eliminate the "paper or plastic" option by banning the plastic bag. Elsewhere some retailers are voluntarily doing the same. Still there is a group of us around who share a kind of save-it-just-in-case mentality. We recycle stuff by using it for purposes never dreamed of by the inventors. In fact we would be very tempted to sign a "Save the Bag" petition if one started making the rounds. Sure a "bring a bag to market" or "rent a bag" movement is admirable, but how often do you simply pop into a supermarket just for a quart of milk only to get a text message from someone at home with a list long enough to fill up two carts? ...more

May 2, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - When Fran Boster bought her home on Cluster Avenue, she didn't realize one of her neighbors would be a several-story-high dirt pile. ...more

February 16, 2008