The mud is likely to fly when Tampa City Council holds a public hearing Tuesday on a plan to clean clogged canals in South Tampa neighborhoods. ...more

December 17, 2007

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir, 1911. ...more

December 3, 2007

The Florida Legislature did residents, present and future, a great disserve last spring by rejecting Gov. Charlie Crist's proposal to increase by $100 million funding for one of the state's most important initiatives - the Florida Forever land preservation and conservation program. ...more

November 24, 2007

Residents and landowners wondering how the northern tip of North Dale Mabry Highway will develop can get a glimpse at a community meeting next week. ...more

November 10, 2007

Residents and landowners wondering how the northern tip of North Dale Mabry Highway will develop can get a glimpse at a community meeting next week. ...more

November 10, 2007

Pasco County commissioners on Friday gave divided opinions on several landowners' requests to change the use of their property. ...more

November 3, 2007

Florida's citrus industry was just about given up for dead in recent years. Sure, the annual crop brought in $1.4 billion to growers last year. But plagued by hurricanes, freezes, labor shortages, imports, deadly diseases and sky-high land prices that caused landowners to turn groves into subdivisions, the long-term outlook for Florida's most identifiable crop appeared bleak. ...more

November 3, 2007

LAND O' LAKES - Parking was such an issue during last year's Flapjack Festival that about 500 people had to be turned away from the community's signature event. ...more

November 1, 2007

Could Polk County's future population be capped at 1.4 million? A group headed by John Ryan, a veteran Polk County environmentalist and planning activist, has a plan to do just that, and he says he's willing to work to put it on the ballot. ...more

October 31, 2007

By a 4-1 vote Tuesday, the county commission affirmed that the owners of Gulf Landings have 'vested rights' to build commercial and multifamily housing on three tracts west of U.S. 19, finishing a project approved 50 years ago. ...more

October 26, 2007