It will a few more months before the dispute over the controversial plan to dump material dredged from the Hernando Beach channel onto a parcel on Eagle Nest Drive gets a hearing. ...more

October 11, 2008

What does lousy cell phone service have to do with honoring this nation's veterans? Usually, nothing. But some county officials want to link the two concepts by resurrecting a controversial plan for a veteran's memorial on the south end of Anna Maria Island, near Leffis Key. ...more

September 4, 2008

A controversial plan to build an ethanol production facility at the Port of Tampa has been shelved in favor of seeking financing to build an ethanol storage facility there instead, the project's sponsor said in an interview Tuesday. ...more

June 18, 2008

Low-cost health insurance options were expanded, and thousands of autistic children received coverage of costly therapies. A school voucher program for poor kids grew by $30 million, but a controversial plan to build commuter rail in Central Florida ran out of steam. ...more

May 3, 2008

The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush's tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint he will hand to lawmakers Monday. ...more

February 3, 2008

SEBRING — Ken Melvin and Ray Napper, two of the seven members of the Lake Denton Citizens Advisory Committee, were not happy with the committee's recommendations to re-open this closed public lake with severe restrictions. Melvin, though, reluctantly endorsed the Highlands County commissioners' decision Tuesday to reopen the popular lake –– closed since early September –– despite the number of controversial restrictions on public access. He described the lake reopening plan as too little, too late and nowhere near a good solution to a big problem. Unlike the other speakers who harshly criticized the plan, though, Melvin didn't oppose the commissioners adopting the committee's unpopular and controversial plan. ...more

January 3, 2008

Pinellas County's two-year effort to change the way students are assigned to schools finally was approved Tuesday night after months of public hearings and last-minute delays that threatened to derail the effort for a year. ...more

December 19, 2007

The Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday delayed final action on a controversial plan that would steer Pinellas County students to schools in their own neighborhoods. ...more

December 12, 2007

LARGO - The Pinellas County School Board on Tuesday delayed final action on a controversial plan that would steer Pinellas County students to schools in their own neighborhoods. ...more

December 11, 2007

A controversial plan to dig a 54-acre borrow pit over 10 years along the county border has the backing of Hillsborough County planners. ...more

November 16, 2007