Pasco County commissioners have hired an Orlando-based law firm specializing in labor negotiations to handle future contract talks with the county's unionized firefighters. ...more

October 22, 2009

Frank Martin Gill of North Miami is gay and a foster parent. Gill and his partner want to adopt half brothers they've parented since 2004, but Florida law prohibits it. So the couple and the boys, ages 4 and 8, remain in legal limbo, waiting for a court or the Legislature to make them one family legally. ...more

March 18, 2009

The University of South Florida has begun to "judiciously" draw from its reserves as it tries to dampen the effects of a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall, the university's provost said Friday. ...more

August 23, 2008

University of South Florida leaders have swept through their various colleges and reworked the way they will deliver a higher education to meet the grim budget realities they now face. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA - University of South Florida leaders have swept through their various colleges and reworked the way they will deliver a higher education to meet the grim budget realities they now face. The biggest changes will hit the College of Arts and Sciences, USF's largest. Although the college gains some institutes that stood alone at the university, it will undergo an administrative overhaul and lose some disciplines to other colleges. ...more

June 12, 2008

In its most competitive admissions season ever, the University of South Florida placed a record 1,300 prospective freshmen on a wait list for next fall. ...more

June 8, 2008

The budget pain afflicting Florida's public universities is just starting. ...more

January 22, 2008

SEBRING — The town of Lake Placid wants $2.7 million for a new water plant. ...more

December 6, 2007