With some positive financial news, but also a cautious eye on next year's state funding, the South Florida Community College Board of Trustees approved a one-time, non-recurring salary increase for all full-time and part-time employees in regular positions. ...more

December 13, 2009

After cutting millions from its budget and laying off staff, the University of South Florida gave bonuses in January ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to four high-level employees. ...more

March 10, 2009

Tampa's firefighters will receive a 2.5 percent cost-of-living raise this year as well as an additional 3.5 percent step plan increase for those who qualify. ...more

March 6, 2009

The school district's principals and other administrators won't get raises this year after all. ...more

February 5, 2009

School administrators and the district's professional and technical staff will likely receive a modest cost of living raise this year. ...more

January 21, 2009

With the economy teetering and thousands of Floridians and other Americans losing their jobs, three Florida members of Congress say they would vote to give up their automatic $4,700 pay raise next year. ...more

December 25, 2008

If there was any doubt that Florida's universities are in trouble, Dean Colson, Gov. Charlie Crists's adviser on higher education, erased it in these remarks to the Florida Board of Governors and university trustees in August: ...more

October 12, 2008

Sheriff Benton was quoted in Highlands Today dated July 16 when defending the huge increase in the sheriff's budget. "You folks asked for it, you got it," the sheriff asserted, indicating that she had given citizens what they wanted in terms of services. ...more

August 29, 2008

Some downtown merchants have petitioned for an increased police presence downtown, but Police Chief Bill McDaniel said a plan is already in the works. ...more

August 27, 2008

When state-mandated property-tax cuts forced Pasco County to cut spending by $16 million last summer, Sheriff Bob White came in asking for a budget increase of $11 million. ...more

August 8, 2008