A thick bed of foul-smelling muck blankets the bottom of a dozen canals along Old Tampa Bay, caused by decades of stormwater runoff and overdevelopment. ...more

December 14, 2009

Tampa and residents have wrangled for years over whose responsibility it is to clean up the canals, many of them carved into the coastline by developers in the early-1960s after the West Shore area was annexed into the city from Hillsborough County. ...more

December 13, 2009

City commissioners will mull over bids on the city's long-awaited downtown street lighting project at their next meeting, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, at City Hall. ...more

December 12, 2009

The possibility that the Highlands County Board of County Commissioners could vote this January on an ordinance to change the number of popularly voted seats on the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring Improvement District Board of Supervisors pleased board President Bob Severino. ...more

December 11, 2009

Several city council members sat on the proverbial fence Tuesday night before voting unanimously to allow chain link fences to be erected in residents' front yards during passage of a fence and wall ordinance for the city. ...more

December 3, 2009

Regarding "Pasco city right to challenge pushy DOT," Our Opinion, Nov. 19: The editorial is replete with assumptions and omissions that insinuate and greatly skew the underlying message - that Zephyrhills is the only entity that has the sole right to decide whether a one-way route should be constructed for U.S. 301 in the city limits. ...more

November 27, 2009

The sides squared off during Tuesday night's City Commission meeting in a debate over whether the city should purchase two parcels along Tarpon Avenue to provide additional downtown parking. ...more

November 7, 2009

When the Florida Department of Transportation staff outnumbers residents at a public hearing, it's a pretty good indicator that the road project will not be a controversial one. ...more

November 6, 2009

With residents in control for the first time, property owners will pay $420 less next year to run their homeowners association. ...more

November 4, 2009

Is adding a small parking lot along Tarpon Avenue the answer to downtown's woes? ...more

October 31, 2009