At the corner of Barclay Road and The Oaks, about a dozen candidate signs of varying heights pepper the landscape in the wooded parcel across from the subdivision. ...more

September 30, 2008

As much as the city council has lamented the fiasco that the effort to conceal City Hall's giant generator has become, they sure do have fun discussing it. ...more

September 19, 2008

County Commission hopeful Ramon Gutierrez picked up the endorsement of the Hernando County Taxpayers Alliance this week. ...more

September 19, 2008

McCain The Lesser Of Two Evils At the risk of causing letter writer Barbara Rice to have a stroke, John McCain will probably be our next president, "Bushie clone" and all. ...more

September 3, 2008

County Cash Cow Mortally Wounded ...more

August 26, 2008

This Tuesday the Tarpon Springs City Commission will be faced with yet another of the unpleasant tasks with which it must grapple during budget season: deciding whether to endorse an increase in fees to use the city's recreation facilities. The city recreation staff is recommending the increase. ...more

August 23, 2008

As Florida's coffers shrink in the face of a dour economy, confusion over a tax statute threatens to choke the flow of home sales at a time when the state is struggling under the burden of millions of unsold properties. ...more

August 13, 2008

One man has spent years deciding the values of other people's property. The other still feels the sting of being denied an agricultural exemption. ...more

August 8, 2008

When the cash cow of ever-increasing property values stuffed county coffers like the California Gold Rush, top-level county administrators and department mangers bathed in the excess with double-digit pay hikes and out-of-control spending. ...more

July 27, 2008

Last week, the front pages of the world press blossomed with photos of four Iranian rockets, fired in salvo, heading skyward. ...more

July 16, 2008