The county has expanded its waste-to-energy plant on Falkenburg Road by 50 percent. ...more

November 11, 2009

A group that wants the U.S. Senate to pass less stringent rules on carbon emissions held one of its 19 nationwide rallies in Ybor City on Thursday to tout its message that legislation adopted by the U.S. House would drive up energy costs. ...more

August 28, 2009

A state Senate committee today approved a bill that would require Florida's electric utilities to get 20 percent of their power from "clean" energy, including nuclear and coal, by 2020. ...more

March 31, 2009

When thousands of locations from the Empire State Building to the Great Pyramids of Giza switch their lights off Saturday for Earth Hour 2009, students from more than 60 Hillsborough County schools will have already done that. ...more

March 27, 2009

Name of Business: Adaptive Builders Address of Business: ...more

March 8, 2009

President Barack Obama challenged the nation's vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo. ...more

February 28, 2009

"Let them eat cake" is how Tampa City Councilman John Dingfelder characterized his four colleagues' refusal to listen to hundreds of citizens on the TECO franchise agreement. Forty-two TECO customers pointed out numerous shortcomings in the franchise agreement, while Councilwoman Mary Mulhern held up a huge stack of letters pleading for a better deal. ...more

December 9, 2008

Just hours before Sen. Barack Obama spoke to crowds in Tampa today, students in Maria Borkowski's speech class at Alonso High School staged a mock presidential encounter of their own. ...more

October 20, 2008

Democrat Teresa "Terri" Conroy is running for the District 3 county commission nomination against Nicholas Planck in the Aug. 26 primary. The winner faces whomever prevails in the Republican primary contest between six-term incumbent Ann Hildebrand and two challengers. ...more

August 16, 2008

Al Gore got it right when he said, "I don't remember a time in our country when so many things seemed to be going so wrong simultaneously." ...more

August 4, 2008