This Tuesday the Tarpon Springs City Commission will be faced with yet another of the unpleasant tasks with which it must grapple during budget season: deciding whether to endorse an increase in fees to use the city's recreation facilities. The city recreation staff is recommending the increase. ...more

August 23, 2008

The easiest thing to say to an elected leader is "Cut the budget!" The hardest thing for an elected leader to say to his or her constituents is: "Cutting the budget is the wrong thing to do." We've heard both of these things recently during county budget discussions. It's our opinion that making drastic cuts is the worst thing the county could do - until there is no other alternative. ...more

August 17, 2008

Will Smith's soon-to-open private school is not a Scientology facility, as some reports have suggested, the academy's director said. ...more

July 1, 2008

A customized plan to guide the redevelopment of Carrollwood began Thursday with an introduction to the community-based planning process. ...more

February 6, 2008

LAKE PLACID — Should the town take the money and run or is land better? At last week's meeting, town attorney Bert Harris III asked the town council to consider whether impact fees negotiated with builders should be extracted in cash or land. ...more

December 19, 2007

As Californians sift through the cinders of last week's wildfires, there is a growing consensus that the state's fight against such disasters - as it is currently being fought - cannot be won. ...more

October 28, 2007

By the end of next month, visitors to the awarding-winning beach at Honeymoon Island State Park, off the coast of Dunedin, should feel a softer layer of sand under their feet. ...more

September 22, 2007