Excerpts from the commission's first public hearing: ...more

November 24, 2007

These days, lots of important decisions about your life are being made in Tallahassee. How much property tax you will pay, what kind of insurance you can buy, whether public education and health care will be funded adequately. Increasingly, however, these decisions are being made in private, without the scrutiny of the public and the media. ...more

November 24, 2007

Editor's note: Pat Gleason, an expert on the Sunshine Law, gave the following testimony in August. Her remarks are edited for space. ...more

November 24, 2007

Jan. 2: Gov. Charlie Crist announces Open Government initiative during inaugural address. ...more

November 24, 2007

Resource Management Regarding "The $40 Million Question" (Metro, Nov. 8): Amid the overheated rhetoric of county commissioners who should know better (kids have only two choices: crack addiction or baseball? Really!), here's another plan: ...more

November 15, 2007

1942: World War II military training camps bring millions of soldiers to Florida. ...more

October 18, 2007

After a week of meetings but too little public debate, Florida lawmakers have agreed on where to cut $1.1 billion from the state's $71 billion budget. They'll return to Tallahassee on Friday for a final and largely party-line vote to bring it into balance. ...more

October 9, 2007

It has been pretty quiet of late around Port Richey City Hall. Regimes have changed settling a relative calm over council chambers. ...more

October 1, 2007