Parents can soon weigh in on district officials' process of selecting which teenagers will be transferred from Central and Springstead high schools to attend the new school being constructed along U.S. 19 in the northwest part of the county. ...more

November 6, 2009

They say talk is cheap. I say that depends on who is doing the talking. Today's scheduled talking is supposed to take place in the great chamber of the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners. That ought to make all of us nervous. The board is going to be talking about what ultimately will be a project costing billions of dollars. YOUR dollars. ...more

November 4, 2009

The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority has scheduled public meetings to get input for a project to determine where bus and light rail routes are needed in two Tampa corridors. ...more

September 22, 2009

Members of a committee studying the Tampa Bay Rays' stadium options may start giving their opinions today about where the Rays should locate, what a stadium should look like and other issues. ...more

August 20, 2009

The debate over federal health care reform continues on tonight at 6:30 p.m. when U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor holds a town-hall meeting on the issue by telephone. ...more

August 13, 2009

School's zero-tolerance policies would be more tolerant if Gov. Charlie Crist signs a bill passed by the Legislature. ...more

May 1, 2009

Facing the prospect of major budget cuts next year, Pasco County officials took the hard questions directly to the taxpayers Monday night in the first of a series of public meetings aimed at setting priorities for the county's future. ...more

April 1, 2009

If something we read recently is correct, then the old saw about the Chinese ideogram for the word crisis being made up of one element denoting danger and the other opportunity is wrong. Regardless, Pasco County is facing a bit of a budget crisis because of falling revenue. So while the county's taxing and spending status quo appears in danger, Pasco officials are taking the opportunity to take a look at how Pasco will change over the next few years and how county government will fit into that change. ...more

April 1, 2009

The Issue: Limiting Citizen Input And Reducing The Number Of County Commission Meetings Each Month. Our Opinion: Bad Ideas. ...more

February 19, 2009

County commissioners have agreed to change the format of their meetings and shorten public input time. ...more

February 13, 2009