Compost And Recycle At a time when local governments are tightening their belts, and as our good governor leads the fight to reduce emissions, Pasco County is looking at a costly, taxpayer-funded expansion of an incinerator that spews poisonous greenhouse gas emissions. ...more

September 19, 2007

Debate is raging over Hometown Democracy, a proposed constitutional amendment that would give voters - and not city or county commissioners - the last word on local growth plans. ...more

September 12, 2007

The proposed amendment to Florida's constitution called Hometown Democracy is a few hundred thousand petitions short of making it to the 2008 ballot. Yet debate is already raging over the plan to give voters – and not city or county commissioners – the last word on local growth plans. Early Tuesday, about 250 builders, land-use lawyers, planners and media types paid $39 a plate for the Tampa Bay Business Journal's breakfast face-off on the issue at Pepin Hospitality Centre. ...more

September 11, 2007