Regulators characterized it as the potential loss of a "nominal amount" of wetlands, but environmental advocates said allowing farmers to dredge or fill small ponds or marshes without replacing them whittles away at Hillsborough County's long-standing wetlands protections. ...more

January 21, 2008

A decade after setting up shop in west Pasco, Matt Griffin and Dan Geberth decided last year to move out of their cramped manufacturing quarters at the West Pasco Industrial Park. ...more

January 10, 2008

Only one town seemed suitable for Jason Jones to set up his restoration and cleaning business: his hometown. ...more

December 3, 2007

Environmentalists were successful Thursday in persuading the Hillsborough County Commission to postpone passage of new wetlands regulations that they say would make it too easy for farmers to destroy small wetlands. ...more

November 16, 2007

PLANT CITY - Four companies and a charity came away winners at Thursday's 15th annual Plant City Business of the Year awards ceremony. ...more

November 9, 2007

Developers of The Grove at Wesley Chapel plana weekend-long celebration to mark the formal opening of their plaza just north of County Road 54 on Oakley Boulevard. ...more

November 8, 2007

A nursery growers group is pushing legislation that would tie the hands of Hillsborough County environmental officials in their efforts to protect wetlands on agricultural property. ...more

November 3, 2007

The tools were children's playthings, but the job couldn't have been more grown-up: Mapping out how Pasco can absorb more than 400,000 new residents between now and midcentury. ...more

October 31, 2007

AVON PARK ? Shannon Peacock summed up in four words the reason small businesses may be hesitant about exporting their products: ?fear of the unknown.? Peacock?s fears were alleviated after he attended an exporting workshop earlier this month that was hosted by the Hardee County Economic Development Council, Hardee County Chamber of Commerce, Florida?s Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative and the Florida Foreign Trade Association ?It was informative,? said Peacock, the plant manager for Bowsmith Irrigation Inc. in Avon Park. ?They laid everything out in a way that I could understand.? ...more

October 28, 2007

When an unidentified company approached County Commissioner Ted Schrader recently with plans for possible expansion in east Pasco, it sounded like great news. ...more

October 11, 2007