Times are quite a bit different today than they were in February when President Barack Obama was in Fort Myers campaigning for the passage of the $787 billion "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act." ...more

November 22, 2009

Nearly every day, burly dump trucks filled to the brim with leftover pizza, soiled diapers and discarded egg cartons roll into an expansive metal warehouse and eject their contents onto the concrete floor. ...more

November 16, 2009

What's with Charlie Crist? The self-styled "people's governor," one of Florida's most popular political figures and certainly one of its most likeable, seems to have lost his touch. ...more

November 13, 2009

The county has expanded its waste-to-energy plant on Falkenburg Road by 50 percent. ...more

November 11, 2009

Greg Bove steps into his pickup and drives down a sandy path to where the future of Florida's renewable energy plans begin: Acres of open land filled with solar panels that will soon power thousands of homes and business. ...more

October 28, 2009

County officials are preparing their objections to federal proposals for a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions some view as a new tax that could raise electric bills. ...more

March 24, 2009

Congress is developing legislation that would require power companies to obtain more energy from renewable sources. The effort, which will cut the nation's dependence on foreign oil, clean the environment and create American jobs, is worthwhile. ...more

February 17, 2009

Last winter, my 10-year-old son and I headed to a destination that had friends and family wondering if we had lost our minds. ...more

January 4, 2009

Hillsborough County residents will see slightly higher garbage bills starting in January. ...more

July 18, 2008

In the late 1980s Pasco County was contemplating what to do with its swelling stream of solid waste. It could create a new landfill, what people once called a garbage dump. There was only one small problem. Actually it was a huge problem. No one wanted the landfill created anywhere near them. That definitely was a problem, because there was hardly any place a landfill might have been created that wasn't near someone. ...more

July 2, 2008