The "Other Views" column (Jan. 15) by Bev Griffiths, chair of the Tampa Bay Sierra Club, contained numerous errors about Mosaic's phosphate business and phosphate operations generally. ...more

January 22, 2008

Regulators characterized it as the potential loss of a "nominal amount" of wetlands, but environmental advocates said allowing farmers to dredge or fill small ponds or marshes without replacing them whittles away at Hillsborough County's long-standing wetlands protections. ...more

January 21, 2008

The fate of frog ponds in Hillsborough County took center stage Thursday when the Environmental Protection Commission agreed to give farmers greater leeway in dredging and filling small wetlands after more than two hours of debate. ...more

January 18, 2008

The Tampa Tribune recently ran a story about a small band of Hillsborough County residents who are teaming up and gathering petitions against Mosaic Co.'s proposal to expand its Fort Lonesome and Four Corners phosphate mining operations by 1,599 acres. ...more

January 15, 2008

I apologize for this last-moment input concerning the expansion of the Shady Hills garbage incinerator. I do, however, believe there is still time to make the correct decision. ...more

December 7, 2007

The Brandon Bypass is bygone, at least for now. Activists trying to reform the county's growth management policies have been pressuring elected officials to remove the conceptual highway from all planning maps. Tuesday, they saw their efforts succeed, as officials voted unanimously to take the penciled route that would sweep through southeastern Hillsborough off the Metropolitan Planning Organization's list of needed transportation improvements for 2025. ...more

December 5, 2007

Several editorials in the Highlands Today have come out against the Florida Hometown Democracy ballot proposal. That is unfortunate, but not surprising, as a newspaper is a "business" and depends upon the number of paid subscribers it has. The more people moving into the newspaper's area, the better chance there is to increase sales. This may be called the "gold" factor. I call it the "greed" factor. ...more

December 5, 2007

TAMPA - The Brandon Bypass is bygone, at least for now. ...more

December 4, 2007

Last Christmas, Donna Hoffman, an ardent environmentalist who lives in Austin, Texas, came up with an unlikely gift for each member of her family: an energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulb. ...more

December 2, 2007

Laura Swain served for four years on the Hillsborough County Planning Commission, helping write the language for rural design standards. ...more

November 17, 2007