How nice that our president met with the king of Saudi Arabia. However, it's a good thing he didn't have to show his passport because if he'd been to Israel, he wouldn't have been allowed to enter the country. ...more

June 9, 2009

A fox that bit a woman Thursday morning in the Citrus Park area has tested positive for rabies, said Hillsborough County Animal Services spokeswoman Marti Ryan. ...more

April 21, 2009

Animal Services officials may have rabies test results today on a fox that bit a woman Thursday morning in the Citrus Park area. The woman was bit about 8 a.m., and Hillsborough County Animal Services workers captured the fox a few hours later, agency spokeswoman Marti Ryan said. ...more

April 20, 2009

Dear Mr. HandyPerson, I read your column regularly and find many sensible solutions to problems. However, in your column on discouraging raccoons, you left out fox urine as a deterrent. ...more

March 22, 2009

Pasco County staff have finished placing 61,200 baits pellets used to vaccinate raccoons against rabies. ...more

February 11, 2009

Where Food Comes From Re: Hunting down our hypocrisy on food. ...more

December 30, 2008

An outbreak of distemper in Tommytown and downtown Dade City has county animal services officials urging pet owners to get their dogs inoculated against the potentially fatal disease. ...more

December 19, 2008

Pasco County officials are urging people to get their dogs vaccinated for distempter after finding several cases of the disease. ...more

December 18, 2008

The county commission on Tuesday appointed a 17-member "stakeholders" committee to revamp Pasco's land development regulations to make the codes more "user friendly." ...more

July 23, 2008

The county commission today appointed a 17-member stakeholders committee to revamp Pasco's land development regulations to make the codes more "user friendly." Some residents questioned, however, whether the panel, comprised mostly of developers, their attorneys and others in the building industry, would have the county's best interests in mind or if residents would be better watchdogs. "This is asking the foxes to guard the henhouse," said Richard Riley, a member of the grassroots rural protection group in northeast Pasco. "Each [of the members] may ...more

July 22, 2008