TAMPA - Kim Scheeler, the longtime leader of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, is leaving that post in August to lead the Greater Richmond (Va.) Chamber of Commerce. ...more

June 19, 2008

DUNEDIN – Gregory A. Rice, head of the planning and community development division for the city of Ashland, Ky., for the last four years, has been named Dunedin's director of planning and development services. Dunedin City Manager Robert DiSpirito said Thursday Rice was selected from a slate of 19 finalists compiled during a nationwide search. ...more

June 19, 2008

Overall, Hernando County's fourth-, eighth- and tenth-graders did about as well as the state average on the writing portion of this year's annual Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. ...more

May 9, 2008

FIRST BATCH OF SCORES RELEASED TO SCHOOLS THURSDAY FCAT SCORES ...more

May 8, 2008

SEBRING — Ramon Gavarrete, the Highlands County engineer, and Ken Wheeler, the county's director of solid waste, are the two finalists for the new position of director of the division of public works. County Administrator Carol and two citizens panels picked the five finalists for the public works and public safety division director jobs on Thursday, after interviewing more than two dozen candidates. Cool said he could not officially announce the names of the five finalists — three for public safety division director and only two for public works division director — until background checks for all five had been completed satisfactorily. ...more

February 17, 2008

and likely well beyond that. If he's healthy to open the season, he should provide a significant boost to the Rays, offensively and defensively. That is, once the team feels comfortable enough to play him in the outfield more often. The worst part about Baldelli's situation is something could go wrong at any moment, just as it did on the routine grounder last May 15 that cost him the rest of the season. Even if he's healthy from the outset, everyone still will be watching anxiously. ...more

February 11, 2008

SEBRING — Highlands County commissioners are not pleased with plans to hire three new top administrators at an extra cost of about $300,000 per year. At their meeting today, the five commissioners, three of whom must run for re-election this year, will consider hiring the first division director in the county's history. On Monday, at the county's annual "visioning session," Commissioners Don Bates, Guy Maxcy and Barbara Stewart said they were less than happy with the prospect of what Bates called "adding another layer of administration" to county government. The price tag to do that — adding three employees with the title of "division director" — will be between $190,000 at the low end, to $360,000 per year at the top end of the salary schedules. The county commission had created the new positions last year to increase efficiency. Three new people will be hired, while the fourth position has already gone to Rick Helms, who went from "assistant county administrator" to the new position of "assistant county administrator/director of the division of administrative services." ...more

February 5, 2008

David Hamilton is back in Crow Wing, Minn., where he will spend the next several weeks wrapping up business and making sure his transition from his job as county administrator there goes smoothly. ...more

January 26, 2008

WellCare Health Plans' top three executives have resigned, three months after the company's Tampa headquarters was raided by federal agents. ...more

January 25, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG It's difficult to imagine a more hectic offseason than the one Akinori Iwamura navigated last year. ...more

January 17, 2008