No quick recovery expected. ...more

March 11, 2009

City Manager Steve Spina said architects have revised the plans for renovating the downtown fire station to cut costs. ...more

March 7, 2009

City Manager Steve Spina said architects have revised the plans for renovating the downtown fire station to cut costs. Spina will ask the city council to approve the latest plans Monday so the city can move forward with repairing the station, which has been out of service for more than a year because of flood damage. ...more

March 6, 2009

Water and sewer customers can expect to see higher rates in March. City commissioners adopted a new rate structure that could raise the average customer's bill $5.46 a month. ...more

February 25, 2009

Dade City water and sewer customers can expect to see higher rates in March ...more

February 24, 2009

What should have been an easy decision to keep Bob Hunter employed as head of the City-County Planning Commission has been complicated by state pension rules that most of us workers in the private sector find overly generous. ...more

February 18, 2009

The deserted houses and heartbroken homeowners in Florida's newest suburbs are the subject of a devastating article in the current New Yorker magazine. The selected snapshots show bleaker scenes in Hillsborough and Pasco counties than most of us who live here will recognize. ...more

February 15, 2009

By now, Highlands County commissioners thought they would have collected $17 million in impact fees. ...more

February 13, 2009

The widening of Sunshine Grove Road was supposed to begin this year. ...more

February 13, 2009

Hank Fishkind, traditionally one of the more optimistic Florida economists, has changed his tune. ...more

February 12, 2009