Florida Hospital unfairly gets more ambulance patients than Highlands Regional Medical Center, Robert Mahaffey contended. However, he couldn't get the Highlands County commissioners to agree. ...more

January 6, 2010

A former Hillsborough County Affordable Housing employee who claimed he was fired because he blew the whistle on mismanagement has been denied reinstatement by a Circuit Court judge. ...more

December 31, 2009

A former Hillsborough County Affordable Housing employee who claimed he was fired because he blew the whistle on mismanagement has been denied reinstatement by a Circuit Court judge. ...more

December 30, 2009

When employees at Hillsborough County Animal Services saw the budget cuts the department faced last spring, they felt their core missions of public safety and preventing animal cruelty were finished. ...more

December 30, 2009

Happily, some seasonal giving can be accomplished without ever visiting a store or a Web site. As we have written before, Christmas isn't Christmas - for that matter, Hanukkah isn't Hanukkah - until certain holiday wishes are bestowed on certain deserving Pasco folks. Naughty or nice, it's all the same. This Space now presents its more-or-less annual holiday gift list. ...more

December 30, 2009

Sportsplex USA has had enough of what the company's chairman calls an "adversarial environment" in Pasco County. ...more

December 30, 2009

Highlands County's first welcome signs were completed last week. The three dimensional 20 feet wide by 10 feet high signs incorporate elements of Highlands County including caladiums, golf, the cracker trail cowboy and race cars. ...more

December 29, 2009

Money magazine's Web site has named Hernando County as one of the top 25 counties in the nation for job growth during the last eight years. ...more

December 25, 2009

County commissioner calls magazine article 'absurd.' ...more

December 24, 2009

Calling it too cumbersome right now, county commissioners agreed to suspend efforts to craft a performance measurement program designed to monitor the efficiency of county departments. ...more

December 23, 2009