For years, 30th Street Southeast has been a two-lane shortcut of little more than a mile through tomato fields, stretching north from the College Avenue spot where Sun City Center drifts into Ruskin to connect to 19th Avenue. ...more

December 5, 2007

SEBRING — Downtown merchants are asked daily for their restrooms, but soon visitors to the Circle will have another place to go. ...more

October 25, 2007

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays sell twice as many season tickets in Pinellas County than in Hillsborough County, but Rays executives intend to expand their reach to more fans across the Bay next season, team president and Tampa resident Matt Silverman said in an interview Tuesday. ...more

October 3, 2007

"SoHo finally meets the suburbs'' in Centex Homes' new community of Magnolia Park, says David Ivin, president of the company's West Florida division. ...more

September 23, 2007

I'd like to ask the Highlands County planning and zoning board, "Why are you trying to ruin beautiful Lake Blue?" At a public hearing on Sept. 11, the county commissioners voted to change the zoning on two parcels of land on Lake Blue from R-1 and R-1A to B-2. The vote was tied 3-3. Then Chairman Lew Carter broke the tie by voting for the zoning change. This zoning change can only be good for the land planner out of Coral Springs, not for the voting homeowners on Lake Blue in Lake Placid. With all of the commercial property in Lake Placid, why destroy Lake Blue? ...more

September 22, 2007