Should Brandon have estate-size lots or city-style lots with homes built close to the roads? ...more

March 25, 2009

Residents interested in glimpsing Brandon's future are invited to an open house on the Brandon Community Plan from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 26 at the Brandon Regional Service Center, 311 Pauls Drive. ...more

March 11, 2009

Organizers for the Relay for Life are working to outperform last year's effort that was the seventh-largest fundraiser of its kind in the state. ...more

February 18, 2009

Since leaving the Senate in 1995, U.S. envoy George J. Mitchell has taken on one seemingly intractable problem after another. ...more

January 26, 2009

The week between Christmas and New Year's Eve tends to be a difficult time to get work done. ...more

December 16, 2008

To Ms. Kraft who wonders what Mr. Maxcy has been doing the last 2-16 years? He's been doing his part in helping to cut the millage and the unemployment rates, both of which were higher when he took office. He has been doing everything he could to help to make this a better county to live in along with the other four commissioners. You do realize that there are five of them that vote on things? May I ask what you have been doing these last two years? Have you been attending the meeting or committee meetings to help understand the goings on in our local government? ...more

September 26, 2008

For years, I've been pushing a "boring is better" approach to investing - the kind of strategy that adheres to the belief that so many of us make the wrong decisions when the markets are in turmoil. We're better off deciding on an asset allocation, filling up the baskets and checking it monthly - not every day. ...more

August 3, 2008

The number of people drafting the Brandon Community Plan would barely make a household. ...more

July 16, 2008

As far as county planners are concerned, there is no doubt Valrico will have a community plan, a guideline for development and growth. ...more

February 13, 2008

A year-long process to craft the Carrollwood Community Plan gets off the ground later this month. ...more

January 19, 2008