I attended a non-meeting, which was advertised as a "Town Hall Meeting Health Care Reform." It was hosted by state Rep. Betty Reed. ...more

August 10, 2009

Mike Slive hears the outside world constantly debate NCAA tournament selections. Slive, the ultimate insider, ignores the noise. As this year's committee chairman, his job is separating those minute slivers and producing a 65-team bracket that reflects the best of the best. ...more

March 13, 2009

A Judicial Complex RFP Evaluation Team meeting will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16 in the Hernando County Commission chambers' meeting room, 20 N. Main Street, Brooksville. ...more

January 14, 2009

Surfing the boob tube one afternoon a few days ago, I stumbled across a local station televising a Hernando County Commission workshop. ...more

December 7, 2008

Some were called in by the boss and told to close the door behind them. Others received a brisk and impersonal phone call from a manager. Another was asked to come in on his day off to talk about "some people issues." ...more

December 5, 2008

County Administrator David Hamilton wants to find out what's on county commissioners' minds. ...more

November 30, 2008

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers, part of a push to put people into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. ...more

October 22, 2008

Starting early next year, Pasco County will offer $20 million in down payment help to prospective home buyers – part of a push to put people back into the foreclosed and abandoned homes that riddle the county. County commissioners today effectively rewrote a proposal by the county's Community Development office for spending $19.5 million in federal housing money aimed at addressing the national housing crisis. The county will add $6 million of its own housing money to increase the federal funding's reach. The proposal original presented to commissioners would have spent $16.3 million on buying and rehabbing run-down homes to make them sellable. Another $4 million was put into helping low- and moderate-income people get mortgages. ...more

October 21, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Visitors to the Land O' Lakes Community Center are invited to set sail on a cruise to terror this week as the annual haunted house makes its debut. Younger ghosts and goblins also can stop by for a trick or a treat at Spooky Street. ...more

October 16, 2008

Fatty-N-Mabel's restaurant probably wouldn't exist at its current location if owner Mike Simpson had known the troubles he'd run into. ...more

October 5, 2008