A Tampa center for domestic violence victims will survive at least another eight months, thanks to $350,000 from the Children's Board of Hillsborough County. ...more

February 1, 2008

TAMPA - A Tampa center for domestic violence victims was on the brink of closing last week. But today, the Family Justice Center learned it will survive at least another eight months thanks to $350,000 from the Children's Board of Hillsborough County. ...more

January 31, 2008

SEBRING — About 400 middle and high school students met regularly to plan activities on spreading the word about the dangers of tobacco and smoking. That was five years ago before a funding cut in 2003 severely curtailed, or at some schools ended the Students Working Against Tobacco (S.W.A.T.) program. With a federal grant to fund it, the Highlands County Health Department proposes to reinstitute the program in the county's high schools. Active S.W.A.T. membership in the county has dropped 70.8 percent since the year 2000, according Donna Noel Stayton, Health Department tobacco prevention specialist. About 28.1 percent of the high school students in Highlands County reported using tobacco within the last 30 days of taking the 2006 Florida Youth Tobacco Survey . ...more

January 22, 2008

It's going to get really cozy around the Palm Harbor Library next year. Throughout 2008, the Library will undergo a remodeling that will cost around $1.3 million, said Library Director Gene Coppola. Another $6 million in Penny for Pinellas sales tax revenue the county has set aside for library expansion will not be ready until sometime after 2010. ...more

October 6, 2007

Is the county board taking the easy way out? We applaud the proposed lowering of the tax millage by a total 1.57 mils, which looks like it will fly tonight at the final budget hearing. But is this all a shell game? ...more

September 26, 2007