Passing the gavel is not good enough. At the Oct. 14 meeting of the Spring Hill Fire Rescue District, Chairman Leo Jacobs tried a dismal effort to pass the gavel to other members of the commission. ...more

October 29, 2009

House Republicans unanimously chose Rep. Larry Cretul as their new leader Monday night, setting the stage for him to replace Ray Sansom permanently as House speaker. ...more

February 3, 2009

House Republicans unanimously chose Rep. Larry Cretul as their new leader, setting the stage for him to replace Ray Sansom as House Speaker next month. ...more

February 2, 2009

Before the high-tech age, the only way citizens could see their government leaders in action at weekly business meetings was to drive to downtown Brooksville and be there promptly at 9 a.m. when the gavel banged and the proceedings got under way. ...more

December 19, 2008

It was a night of transition for the city council. The council on Monday greeted a new member, selected a new mayor and vice mayor and said goodbye to former vice mayor Frankie Burnett. ...more

December 2, 2008

E-Stone USA Corp. was honored Tuesday night as this year's winner of the Highlands County Business Excellence Award during the Highlands County Economic Development Commission's annual banquet and membership meeting. ...more

October 26, 2008

Hillsborough School Board Chairwoman Jennifer Faliero only has a little more than a month left at the helm of this panel and given the dysfunction of this board and Faliero's attempts to muzzle opponents, that's a good thing. ...more

October 24, 2008

Discourse turned ugly Tuesday night when the chairwoman of the Hillsborough County School Board tried to stop a board member from speaking and motioned for her to be removed from the room. ...more

October 22, 2008

Democrats messed up. Republicans were robbed. It took a special House committee more than a year of investigating, at a cost of $500,000, to validate GOP claims that majority Democrats made the wrong call on a contested vote during one late night in the summer of 2007. The dispute fed into the ongoing highly partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill. ...more

September 26, 2008

Republicans opened their scaled-down national convention Monday with calls for aid and compassion as Hurricane Gustav smashed into the Gulf Coast. ...more

September 2, 2008