Leaders for Westchase want to make their community parks more accessible to children with disabilities. ...more

October 14, 2009

County Commissioner Rose Rocco has acquired the 1,230 signatures needed to place her name on the 2010 November ballot. ...more

September 4, 2009

Edward Knecht advocates a personal graduated income tax for Florida (Letters, July 7), but there are two things wrong with this thinking: ...more

July 13, 2009

A financial audit of the School Board of Highlands County showed two "significant deficiencies," according to the State of Florida Auditor General, but no major problems with the district's accounting procedures. ...more

March 31, 2009

An employee of a Pinellas County roofing business accused of filing second mortgages without homeowners' consent was arrested today on fraud charges. ...more

February 25, 2009

The misnamed Employee Free Choice Act would, among other measures helpful to union expansion, allow a shop to unionize before its owner knew a union campaign was being waged. ...more

February 10, 2009

Call it the voice of the people, Port Richey style. After discerning the will of the people in a petition calling on them to authorize another referendum on doing away with Port Richey, City Council this week told City Attorney Michael Brannigan to draft an ordinance that would authorize a dissolution referendum. ...more

January 31, 2009

How many people read every last page in the Highlands Today? I did today; a nice quiet Sunday, and guess what I found? It was an announcement from the U.S. Navy. The Navy has announced that it has indefinitely suspended its plans to drop live bombs at the Avon Park Bombing Range; why? Well not because of the hundreds of signatures my sister and I were able to collect standing out in front of Big Lots last year, to protest it. Seems just like all of us "plain folks," the Navy is short of funds. ...more

January 20, 2009

Against pleas from worried residents and a petition with more than 200 signatures, the county commission on Wednesday approved a mental health and drug treatment facility on Grove Road. ...more

January 15, 2009

Principal Michael Hoskinson sent out a ParentLink phone message to Coleman Middle School parents saying there would be no cell phone tower erected on the school's campus. ...more

January 9, 2009