They came to cut $25 million from the budget. ...more

February 25, 2009

A historic land deal aimed at helping restore the dying Everglades, and lauded by Gov. Charlie Crist as "monumental as the creation of our nation's first national park," may end up dead in the water. ...more

February 24, 2009

Swiftmud approved a development permit this morning needed to bring an expanded T. Rowe Price office complex to Pasco County ...more

February 24, 2009

Will seek to negotiate salary freezes. ...more

February 23, 2009

The county's Ridge Road extension could become a road to nowhere. ...more

February 18, 2009

Summertree residents complain it's like talking to a brick wall. They say state officials have refused to correct a problem with the subdivision's barrier wall dating from the widening of S.R. 52 several years ago. ...more

February 18, 2009

The deserted houses and heartbroken homeowners in Florida's newest suburbs are the subject of a devastating article in the current New Yorker magazine. The selected snapshots show bleaker scenes in Hillsborough and Pasco counties than most of us who live here will recognize. ...more

February 15, 2009

With all the region's drinking water problems, it's a relief environmental regulators finally denied an absurd plan to develop a large garbage landfill on the edge of the Green Swamp in east Pasco County. ...more

February 13, 2009

Even as many details for Florida have yet to be announced, GOP Gov. Charlie Crist and Tampa Democrat Rep. Kathy Castor today applauded the $789 billion economic stimulus bill agreed upon by the U.S. House and Senate. ...more

February 12, 2009

Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp said he would reimburse the state $12,974 for flights his wife and son took aboard state planes. ...more

February 9, 2009