The national debate over opening more offshore areas to oil and gas exploration has begged the question: Just what are the companies doing with the tens of millions of acres they're already leasing from the federal government? ...more

July 21, 2008

The House today killed a bill that Democrats including Kathy Castor had pushed as a way to spur more drilling on 68 million acres of government land already leased by oil and gas companies in Alaska, the West and the western Gulf of Mexico. ...more

July 17, 2008

Our politicians are asking us to allow offshore and wildlife refuge drilling to increase the amount of oil available and lower gas prices. These requests make a rational mind believe we must have run out of land to develop for oil. Nothing could be further from the truth. ...more

July 9, 2008

A Beach Over A State Regarding "As Gas Prices Gush, Drilling Debate Flows" (front page, June 14): ...more

June 21, 2008

Michael Agosta joined the Army on May 30 and was ordered to ship out for basic training in 19 days. ...more

June 14, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Michael Agosta joined the Army on May 30 and was immediately ordered to ship out for basic training 19 days later. So he gave his apartment complex copies of his orders and notice that he was terminating his rental agreement. ...more

June 13, 2008

TAMPA - A former Tampa Housing Authority official was sentenced this morning to two years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to steal more than $140,000 in federal rent subsidies. ...more

June 5, 2008

As we write this reply, we always felt Hernando Today was very fair in reporting both sides of an issue. ...more

June 5, 2008

Teachers see it all the time. A child comes in with the sniffles, gets a cold or flu, the germs spread and then other students and sometimes teachers in the classroom catch it. ...more

February 16, 2008

Harley-Davidson is the bike of choice for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office motorcycle unit, and the agency is awaiting the county's purchase order to put seven new bikes on the road, agency spokesman Doug Tobin said. ...more

January 31, 2008