City commissioners are keeping an eye on Tallahassee as state legislators debate the $1.2 billion commuter rail deal with railroad giant CSX. ...more

March 8, 2009

City Commissioners are keeping an eye on Tallahassee as state legislators debate the $1.2 billion commuter rail deal with railroad giant CSX. The 61-mile commuter rail line linking Tampa and Orlando would have a direct effect on Dade City because dozens of additional freight trains could be rerouted directly through the town on their way to a massive new rail hub in Winter Haven. ...more

March 4, 2009

Judging from the solid waste generated by some first-rate public relations flackery, you would think the good citizens of Central Florida arise every morning and gaze longingly out their windows in the unrequited hope that someday soon a CSX choo-choo will come blowing by to turn their pastureland into a teaming hub of locomotion. ...more

May 3, 2008

State fire investigators are examining the scene of a massive fire at Packaging Corp. of America. ...more

February 13, 2008

WINTER HAVEN – State fire investigators are examining the scene of a massive fire at Packaging Corp. of America. ...more

February 11, 2008

Lowell Clary, the state's top negotiator in the pending rail-realignment deal with CSX Transportation, has announced his intention to resign, the state Department of Transportation confirmed Thursday. ...more

September 13, 2007