Local environmentalists admit they were worried but say they are largely satisfied with Hillsborough County's yearlong effort to revise its wetlands rules. ...more

July 19, 2008

Resounding public protest persuaded county officials to rethink plans to cut off two well-traveled roads off Lithia-Pinecrest Road to accommodate improvements at its busy intersection with Lumsden Road. ...more

May 21, 2008

Planners who drew a conceptual route for a bypass highway through rural Hillsborough County probably didn't mean to connect the dots that mark preservation lands on the map. ...more

October 25, 2007

Planners who drew a conceptual route for a bypass highway through rural Hillsborough County probably didn't mean to connect the dots that mark preservation lands on the map. ...more

October 25, 2007

It's a myth so pervasive, most of us believe it's true. I know I did. So when information about 'feminist bra burning rallies' turned up in a timeline Maidenform provided for a Sept. 27 story on the history of the bra, I didn't think twice about using it. ...more

October 9, 2007

It's a myth so pervasive, most of us believe it's true. ...more

October 8, 2007

To many parents, it seemed nonsensical. A plan to make school bus service more efficient meant their children would have to cross Bell Shoals Road, one of the busiest north-south arteries in Brandon, just as commuters were rushing to work from their houses, condos and town homes in this booming bedroom community. ...more

September 5, 2007