The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other. ...more

December 19, 2009

Florida is linking its application for $700 million in federal education grant money to the adoption of local merit pay plans, which have been unpopular among teachers in the past although that could be changing. ...more

December 12, 2009

In these times of tight budgets there will be people who insist for one reason or another they are indispensible to the running of the county ...more

August 13, 2009

Sheriff Bob White announced today he will phase out a unit that tracks court defendants before trials and reassign the unit's four deputies to patrol duty. ...more

March 20, 2009

The state's judicial oversight group today dropped charges against former state appellate judge Thomas E. Stringer. ...more

March 19, 2009

Pasco County officials will search for ways to decrease the backlog of court cases which can leave jails crowded. ...more

December 20, 2008

Pasco County officials will search for ways to decrease the backlog of court cases which can leave jails overcrowded. ...more

December 10, 2008

Despite tight budgets, county commissioners recently decided to pay $198,000 to extend a program another year to help mentally ill people who might otherwise wind up in jails. ...more

November 9, 2008

In this day of tight budgets, we genealogists have to be selective in the online database subscriptions we can buy. ...more

November 9, 2008

Citrus grower Bob Stallings is used to battling citrus disease and skyrocketing production costs. ...more

October 13, 2008