Pasco County commissioners on Tuesday formally will accept a $4.2 million federal grant aimed at helping the county use energy more efficiently. ...more

November 14, 2009

Drug-Testing Scheme Regarding "Jobless Benefits Drug Test Proposed," Metro, March 17: ...more

March 19, 2009

You can't make this stuff up. On Thursday, as armed guards kept the media from a meeting between the board that operates the city's zoo and its about-to-be-canned director, the about-to-be-canned director's wife was charged with animal cruelty for, authorities said, leaving two dogs alone in a car for more than two hours. ...more

December 21, 2008

The public is invited to attend an orientation session for newly elected county commissioners James Adkins and John Druzbick. ...more

November 9, 2008

I am a retired police chief from a major city. I reside in Highlands County and have been listening and reading about the conflicts within the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. I am very concerned about the current sheriff's mismanagement of the budget and the conflict between the sheriff and other elected officials. ...more

October 7, 2008

Pasco County leaders will spend less, and homeowners will save an estimated $115 each in the 2008-09 fiscal year, thanks to statewide property tax reform and a struggling economy. ...more

July 16, 2008

Questions of general interest will be answered in this column. ...more

July 14, 2008

Pasco County Clerk of the Circuit Court Jed Pittman is ending a long, distinguished career on a very sour note over the most basic job responsibility: showing up for work. ...more

June 22, 2008

Leave it to Pasco County Republican Party Chairman Bill Bunting to use a hammer instead of gentlemanly diplomacy to promote GOP candidates this election season. ...more

June 1, 2008

They don't call it 'interstate' for nothing. The system of highways that includes Interstate 75 was conceived in the 1930s, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other elected officials floated the idea of a network of limited access, transcontinental superhighways to move people and cargo across the country. ...more

September 22, 2007