Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more

September 10, 2008

TAMPA - Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more

September 9, 2008

The Lowry Park Zoo's board has called for an independent financial audit of dealings with Safari Wild to determine whether any zoo money was used for the private exotic animal park co-owned by zoo President Lex Salisbury. ...more

August 29, 2008

The Lowry Park Zoo's board has called for an independent financial audit of dealings with Safari Wild to determine whether any zoo money was used for the private exotic animal park co-owned by zoo President Lex Salisbury. ...more

August 28, 2008

An Uhuru Movement-backed group called the Justice for Javon Dawson Committee gathered outside the Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center this morning to protest State Attorney Bernie McCabe's role in the investigation of a police shooting of a St. Petersburg teenager two months ago. ...more

August 7, 2008

The ongoing legal battle between developer Gene Thomason and 20 homeowners suing him and his company for fraud got uglier Thursday, when the community development district tacked $500,000 for "extraordinary" legal costs onto an already-swelling budget. ...more

July 30, 2008

CORY LAKE ISLES - The ongoing legal battle between developer Gene Thomason and 20 homeowners suing him and his company for fraud got uglier Thursday when the community development district tacked $500,000 for "extraordinary" legal costs onto an already-swelling budget. If the CDD board approves the new budget in August, homeowners would be faced with a $1,106 increase in next year's assessments. ...more

July 24, 2008

Green Not So Green I have a dilemma that I need the liberal global warming alarmists to help me with. If we go to "electric" cars, I foresee a conflict of interest. Do I demonstrate my "greenness" by having an electric-powered rollerskate, thereby increasing the demand of electricty, thereby increasing the amount of coal or nuclear power usage while thumbing my nose at the oil companies? ...more

July 18, 2008

When Highlands County had an opening for a clerical assistant at Emergency Medical Services recently, at $9.29 per hour, on the low end of the pay range, 63 people applied. ...more

July 10, 2008

SEBRING - When Highlands County had an opening for a clerical assistant at Emergency Medical Services recently, at $9.29 per hour, on the low end of the pay range, 63 people applied. Seventy-five people applied for one opening in the county road and bridge department for a laborer's job. The pay scale for this job starts at $8.88 per hour and runs up to a maximum of $14.38 per hour. "We have had, it seems, a big increase in the number of job applicants since I've been here," said Don Kesterson, a county human resources specialist who took his job 18 months ago following a 20-year career in the Air Force. ...more

July 9, 2008