The deserted houses and heartbroken homeowners in Florida's newest suburbs are the subject of a devastating article in the current New Yorker magazine. The selected snapshots show bleaker scenes in Hillsborough and Pasco counties than most of us who live here will recognize. ...more

February 15, 2009

Hillsborough County appears to have wasted $500,000 in studying the widening of a rural section of Lithia-Pinecrest Road southeast of Brandon that the county now says it has no intention of actually widening. ...more

January 11, 2009

Hillsborough County needs to quit talking about attracting high-paying jobs and start getting specific about what it will take to become an economic powerhouse, county commissioners said Thursday. ...more

December 12, 2008

TAMPA -- Hillsborough County needs to quit talking about attracting high-paying jobs and start getting specific about what it will take to become an economic powerhouse, county commissioners said today. At their annual goal-setting meeting, several commissioners expressed frustration with vague notions such as visions and strategic goals that never move the county off dead center. ...more

December 11, 2008

Robert Hunter, who helped guide growth planning in Hillsborough County for 21 years, will resign at the end of this year as executive director of the planning commission. ...more

November 28, 2008

Robert Hunter, who helped guide growth planning in Hillsborough County for 21 years, will resign at the end of this year as executive director of the Planning Commission. ...more

November 27, 2008

A more robust effort at involving the public has led to improvements in a proposed update of Hillsborough County's growth plan. ...more

November 8, 2007

The city-county Planning Commission will have until at least January to analyze 13 land-use amendments that recently were proposed, county commissioners decided Tuesday. ...more

September 26, 2007