Passions flared this week as some residents complained about noise from MacDill Air Force Base while others defended the military installation. ...more

January 24, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners rejected a last-minute push on Wednesday to require amendments to the county charter be passed by 60 percent of voters rather than a simple majority. ...more

October 4, 2007

Necessary Duplication 'Duplication of services,' 'efficiency' and other such buzz words are being used more and more by the development community in attempts to garner even greater benefits than they currently enjoy. For example, the article by Steve Allison ('Take Hard Look At County Planning,' Other Views, Sept. 22) uses the above words as reasons to change the current modus operandi of the Planning Commission. What Allison failed to state is that he is a land planner who makes his living by pushing projects through the system that is currently in place. ...more

September 29, 2007