Once upon a time, when she was the princess of Pasco County politics, the soundtrack to Cathi Martin's life might have been composed by Tchaikovsky, who gave us those magical melodies from "Sleeping Beauty." ...more

March 11, 2009

City commissioners are keeping an eye on Tallahassee as state legislators debate the $1.2 billion commuter rail deal with railroad giant CSX. ...more

March 8, 2009

City Commissioners are keeping an eye on Tallahassee as state legislators debate the $1.2 billion commuter rail deal with railroad giant CSX. The 61-mile commuter rail line linking Tampa and Orlando would have a direct effect on Dade City because dozens of additional freight trains could be rerouted directly through the town on their way to a massive new rail hub in Winter Haven. ...more

March 4, 2009

Paula O'Neil spent six years learning the inner workings of the office before running for Pasco County Clerk of Court last year. ...more

February 28, 2009

I read with interest the Tribune's Feb. 22 article regarding closure of the Smithfield Foods facility in Plant City. Like many communities across this great county, Plant City has had to cope with unprecedented challenges to our local, state, national and global economies. Our budgets are stressed by declining depository interest rates and rising operating expenses. We see our neighborhoods negatively impacted by the foreclosure crisis. We feel the pain when layoffs are announced. ...more

February 25, 2009

A simple apology would have sufficed. Instead, Sen. Russ Feingold has decided to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the First Amendment with Feingold-McCain, more vandalism against the Constitution. ...more

February 22, 2009

Best Buy Trimming Corporate Jobs Best Buy Co. said Thursday that 250 workers at its corporate headquarters in suburban Minneapolis would lose their current jobs as the electronics chain pares its work force, though most might get new positions with the company. ...more

February 20, 2009

Responsible pet owners should do it, says Nancy Parry, a New Yorker who is wintering in Wauchula. ...more

February 20, 2009

The father of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl said he and his 17-year-old girlfriend have passed polygraph tests, according to CNN.com. ...more

February 12, 2009

Investigators say they are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl as an abduction because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday offered no evidence she wandered off. Her father's dread and uncertainty is what Mark Lunsford felt four years ago when his daughter, 9-year-old Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford, was abducted from her Citrus County mobile home. ...more

February 12, 2009