The potential closing of Egmont Key State Park has Hillsborough County commissioners looking for a rescue plan to keep the wildlife preserve open. ...more

December 30, 2008

TAMPA About 40 people, many retirees, rode a school bus downtown today to oppose a professional soccer stadium planned for a site near their homes in Town 'N Country. They could have skipped the trip and saved the $400 they paid to rent the bus. ...more

December 9, 2008

A Pinellas County audit shows the Airco public golf course next to the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport is so mismanaged, with essential repairs repeatedly delayed, that golfers themselves might be in danger. ...more

November 20, 2008

The public is invited to attend an orientation session for newly elected county commissioners James Adkins and John Druzbick. ...more

November 9, 2008

There are problems there, too, owner of first site says. ...more

September 17, 2008

The county is sailing full steam ahead with plans to place the slurry dredged from the bottom of the Hernando Beach channel on an alternate site. ...more

September 17, 2008

A 5,000-seat soccer stadium for the Rowdies could be coming to the Town 'N Country area of northwest Hillsborough County within two years. ...more

August 22, 2008

The easiest thing to say to an elected leader is "Cut the budget!" The hardest thing for an elected leader to say to his or her constituents is: "Cutting the budget is the wrong thing to do." We've heard both of these things recently during county budget discussions. It's our opinion that making drastic cuts is the worst thing the county could do - until there is no other alternative. ...more

August 17, 2008

The Seffner-Mango area is growing, and not just in terms of population. At the July 17 Seffner-Mango Community Plan meeting, 20 residents agreed to shift the community's boundaries and claim a chunk of land east to McIntosh Road for the community plan. ...more

July 25, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners are expected to vote today on $6 million in funding to lure a Massachusetts-based high-tech firm company open a research and product-development laboratory at the University of South Florida. ...more

July 16, 2008