Within six months, the roughly 500 customers of the problem plagued Landmark Utilities sewage plant should be hooked into the city sanitary sewer system. ...more

March 5, 2009

Economy, streamlining cited as impetus to unionize ...more

March 4, 2009

Japanese Uncover Global Warming Fraud Chalk one up for dissent. Japanese scientists were smart enough to find the fraud in the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis and then had the guts to publicly disagree with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change about it. ...more

March 4, 2009

Civic activist Janey Baldwin drove home her point at Tuesday's debut of the budget and finance standing committee that the entire affair was a waste of time. ...more

March 4, 2009

Pinellas County officials plan to cut 20 to 30 percent from general fund spending in fiscal year 2010. First, however, they want to hear where Pinellas residents would drop the budget ax. The county will hold town hall-type work sessions on budget priorities. The north county work session will be held 5:30 - 8 p.m. this Tuesday, March 3, at Palm Harbor University High School, 1900 Omaha St. ...more

February 28, 2009

When John Feegel started as Hillsborough County's chief medical examiner in 1973, his office was in the basement of Tampa General Hospital. ...more

February 28, 2009

When John Feegel started as Hillsborough County's chief medical examiner, his office was in the basement of Tampa General Hospital. The office moved into a more spacious 8,000-square-foot building on Morgan Street in 1978. Thirty years later, the building became cramped, and there wasn't a proper place for families, funeral directors, law enforcement or reporters who frequent the building. Feegel died in 2003, but today his son was on hand for the grand opening of the office's new location, a 31,500-square-foot complex at 11025 N. 46th St. ...more

February 26, 2009

The county is scrambling to financially prop up its embattled fleet department. ...more

February 26, 2009