You had a letter today suggesting that Guy Maxcy should be removed as county commissioner. My suggestion is that he should be re-elected. When it was proposed that the impact fees should be suspended because of the downturn in local building, I sent an e-mail message to several commissioners expressing my disagreement. Instead of a no response or just a simple acknowledgment that I received from other commissioners, Mr. Maxcy sent me a thoughtful, well-written note expressing his opinion. Then, after the impact fee suspension idea was rejected, Mr. Maxcy had the courtesy to call me on the phone to discuss the issue and to say that he had come to believe the impact fee suspension was a bad idea. ...more

June 16, 2008

PORT RICHEY -- Angry over large concrete utility poles placed along their street, some residents in the Gray Fox Lane area are considering a lawsuit if Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative won't relocate the power lines. ...more

June 11, 2008

HOLIDAY -- Gasoline prices are up. Food prices are up. What's next? A boat launch fee is in the works at Pasco County's Anclote River Park. ...more

June 11, 2008

Volunteer Way and River Ridge Presbyterian Church officials discuss a concept to grow crops locally to help supply the food bank, which faces frequent shortages ...more

February 12, 2008

By edging out Hillary Rodham Clinton for second place in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, John Edwards has kept his second bid for the presidential nomination alive - for now. ...more

January 5, 2008

The liberal MoveOn.org, a leader of an anti-Iraq war coalition, is asking supporters to help pay for free phone calling cards for soldiers overseas in a partnership with the United Service Organizations, the charity that has helped troops for more than six decades. ...more

December 21, 2007

The beloved holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" will come to the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center next weekend. ...more

December 15, 2007

You've already enrolled your teenagers in Advanced Placement Mandarin, retained a $9,000-a-year college admissions consultant to help refine their applications and sent them off to Kyrgyzstan to dig irrigation ditches for the summer. Still, there's no guarantee that they'll get into an Ivy League university. What are you going to do? ...more

December 13, 2007

Kurt Conover has thrown his hat into the ring as a candidate for Pasco County School Board in 2008. ...more

November 9, 2007

I confess to diving gleefully into the computer age, embracing the Internet with zeal. 'Google' is one of my favorite words. But, as a genealogist, I'm not yet sold on 'wiki.' ...more

October 28, 2007