Motorists driving through Ybor City should avoid Seventh Avenue for the rest of the week while the brick road is repaved with asphalt. ...more

August 5, 2008

The State Department insisted Friday it can handle the growing demand for passports, despite congressional investigators' findings that the agency has not overhauled the system to avoid a repeat of last summer's backlog fiasco. ...more

July 26, 2008

What's your address? That seemingly simple question is baffling eight homeowners on a quiet street in Wellswood. All came home to letters from the city last month explaining their address had been changed and most major utility companies and the post office had been notified. ...more

July 13, 2008

Businesses along a 2-mile stretch of West Linebaugh Avenue soon will be able to connect to county water, thanks to a $2.2 million potable water pipeline project. ...more

July 5, 2008

State transportation officials opened bids for the long-anticipated widening of U.S. 301 last week and found them all under budget, with the lowest coming in at just less than $61 million. ...more

June 25, 2008

Sylvia Helms is taking the road less traveled. She used to head north on North Boulevard and make a right at Main Street to drop off and pick up her two daughters at Blake High School. But since North Boulevard was closed last month at Interstate 275, she has used the recommended detour and an alternative route she found, adding about 10 minutes to her commute from Riverview. ...more

May 10, 2008

Hillsborough County recently reduced the number of employees and the workload at its Plant City building services permitting office. ...more

May 3, 2008

If we look to benefits only, we'll do darn near anything because there's always a benefit. ...more

February 23, 2008

MacDill Air Force Base has long been a tremendous community asset and key component of the national defense, yet local leaders dare not take its presence for granted. ...more

February 17, 2008

On several occasions, while volunteering at the church service centers in Avon Park, I would ask some seemingly able bodied aid recipients the reason why they were not working. Quite often, the answer given was a lack of transportation to get to and from work on a regular and dependable basis. At first I questioned that response but, upon reflection, I concluded that the lack of public transportation in the Avon Park-Sebring area is more than just an inconvenience; it is definitely a real hardship for many of our constituents. In fact last month, while traveling along Memorial Drive I stopped to pick up a walker and asked him where he was heading. He said "Homer's Restaurant." He informed me that earlier that morning he had been called to come in to work on his day off, and to start working by 8 a.m. Unfortunately, due to a lack of transportation, he had started walking the six mile distance to Homer's and had managed to reach that point at approximately 8:45 a.m. After dropping him off at the restaurant, he proceeded to thank me and rushed off to his job. ...more

February 16, 2008