Regarding "Water department denies access to Cone Ranch," (The Tampa Tribune, Dec. 15): Recently, Hillsborough County Water Resource Services (WRS) was contacted by a Pinellas County resident who wanted permission for a group to conduct a birding study at Cone Ranch. We would like the opportunity to provide several pieces of key information that were missing from the article. ...more

December 27, 2009

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay the highest price possible to transfer Cone Ranch from one Hillsborough County department to another, a member of a county commission-appointed panel on the ranch's future contends. ...more

December 26, 2009

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay the highest price possible to transfer Cone Ranch from one county department to another, a member of a county commission-appointed panel on the ranch's future contends. ...more

December 23, 2009

If a novice wants someone to show them how to sew, their first choice might not be a man who is an ex-soldier, a retired Philadelphia policeman and a former employee with the Pasco County property appraiser. However, since that man happens to be Pasco County resident Jim Dennison, it would be a good choice. ...more

December 18, 2009

The 12,800-acre Cone Ranch will someday be part of Hillsborough County's conservation lands program, county commissioners decided Wednesday. ...more

December 17, 2009

County administrator Pat Bean survived her annual evaluation today with her job intact but at the end of what one commissioner called a "short rope" that could be jerked if she doesn't improve her performance. Commissioner Mark Sharpe received no support for a motion he made to fire Bean and fill her position by a coalition of her assistant county administrators until the job could be filled permanently. ...more

December 16, 2009

Environmental activists won a huge victory recently when an advisory panel recommended that county-owned Cone Ranch stay in public ownership under the county's conservation lands program. ...more

November 28, 2009

An advisory panel recommended Monday that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 17, 2009

An advisory panel recommended today that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever, and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 16, 2009

City Manager Sarah Adelt scored an average of 71.7 percent on her evaluations by city council members. In evaluation standards that's "good." But several critical comments on her performance, by two council members, stood out. ...more

November 6, 2009