Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was driven from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months. ...more

September 5, 2008

Dunedin's Community Redevelopment Agency will learn today about plans by its staff and the Dunedin Historical Society to expand and renovate the society's downtown headquarters and museum. At the City Hall meeting starting at 5 p.m. Thursday, city commissioners, acting as the CRA board, will also hear a proposal from agency staff to improve the Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail Plaza, in front of the former railroad depot turned museum. ...more

September 4, 2008

City staff will go to a four-day workweek in the next fiscal year. ...more

September 4, 2008

In a survey mailed to residents as part of a an strategic planning project, residents were asked several questions about the most pressing issues City Hall should address in the short and long term. ...more

September 3, 2008

The city council is considering an increase in residential and commercial sanitation fees in an effort to bring its charges more in line with its costs. ...more

September 3, 2008

On Wednesday City Council decided the trend within the public and private sectors toward a four-day work week was worth a try for the city's coming fiscal year. ...more

September 3, 2008

Dear Readers, In June, Mr. HandyPerson responded to a Florida reader having trouble finding a house painter who did not expect a 50 percent advance before signing a contract. He opined that perhaps this was not terribly unusual because the painters might need to purchase materials, and that she should make calls to city hall and the Better Business Bureau to ask about local standards, and to check about prospective painters. ...more

August 28, 2008

The city council is considering an increase in residential and commercial sanitation fees in an effort to bring its charges more in line with its costs. ...more

August 27, 2008