NEW PORT RICHEY -- County leaders are enduring the monetary equivalent of a root-canal operation as they contemplate shrinking the budget by 19 percent to reflect the downturn in the economy. ...more

July 15, 2008

State lawmakers agreed Wednesday to transfer more than $21 million from state trust funds to shore up adoption, foster care and child protection programs that were casualties this spring of the state's budget crisis. ...more

June 19, 2008

As predicted, state tax collections for the month of April were down - way down. ...more

May 22, 2008

As the Legislature cut $1 billion from Florida's budget last year, one lawmaker wanted the state to sell one of its three planes to save $200,000 annually. ...more

January 7, 2008

Mere hours away from trying to finalize a very lean county budget, county commissioners had to jump through some more hoops this morning. ...more

September 25, 2007