While the stock market has performed like Busch Gardens' SheiKra roller coaster, Pasco County's investment portfolio has offered all the thrills of a kiddie ride. ...more

November 9, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - Pasco County could offer more than $7 million in incentives to lure investment firm T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. to the Sunlake Boulevard area off State Road 54. ...more

November 1, 2008

County officials decided this week against branching into the real estate business and buying foreclosed homes. ...more

October 25, 2008

County commissioners Tuesday agreed to spend $2.55 million to preserve Morsani Ranch in northwestern Pasco 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 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

Bold measures are needed, a real estate leader told Pasco County commissioners today as a foreclosure rescue plan worth nearly $20 million took shape. ...more

October 21, 2008

County jail inmates could serve on work crews for county projects if Pasco officials and the Sheriff's Office can work out the mechanics of a contract. ...more

September 24, 2008

More than 400 youngsters ages 5 through 12 lined the riverbank at Sims Park on Saturday for the annual YMCA Kids Fishing Festival. ...more

September 17, 2008

Pasco County officials and the sheriff's office remain at odds over how best to use inmate labor for county projects. ...more

September 14, 2008