The Florida Public Service Commission is planning a self-examination amid complaints the agency has been too cozy with the utilities it regulates, the panel's top staffer told lawmakers Wednesday. ...more

November 7, 2009

Former state legislator Les Miller announced today that he will challenge County Commissioner Kevin White for the District 3 seat. ...more

February 5, 2009

Mary Yvette Thomas Mathis, the only Plant City commissioner facing re-election this year, has announced she will seek another three-year term. ...more

February 4, 2009

Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson will tell county commissioners today that he's in a financial jam and needs a $2.3 million bailout. ...more

December 17, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is making several changes in how it runs its jail system, including the creation of crisis intervention teams, additional training in handling inmate grievances and clarifying use of force procedures for detention and patrol deputies. ...more

November 18, 2008

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is making several changes in how it runs its jail system, including the creation of crisis intervention teams, additional training in handling inmate grievances and clarifying use of force procedures for detention and patrol deputies. ...more

November 17, 2008

Fresh from a victory at the polls on Nov. 4, advocates of a change in Hillsborough County's style of government are setting their sights on 2010. ...more

November 16, 2008

A half-century ago, an East German communist demanded that the people exhibit more confidence in their rulers. "Would it not be easier," the poet Bertolt Brecht responded, "for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" Though aimed at a long-ago Stalinist, Brecht's gibe comes alarmingly close to describing how legislators in many states keep themselves in power. ...more

November 8, 2008

The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday to open up unused, unlicensed portions of the television airwaves known as "white spaces" to deliver wireless broadband service. ...more

November 5, 2008

The Hillsborough County mayor question won't be on the Nov. 4 ballot. On Friday, a three-judge panel upheld a circuit judge's earlier ruling to keep it off. ...more

September 13, 2008