At the end of the calendar year, many people balance their checkbooks to see where they stand financially going into the next 12 months. ...more

April 2, 2009

Outgoing elections supervisor Buddy Johnson has changed his mind about asking the county commission to give his office more money. ...more

December 19, 2008

City employees who are doing a good job will get a raise, if a modest one, after all. ...more

September 19, 2008

City residents will have a few more dollars in their accounts after paying their property tax bills if the city council sticks with a millage rate it adopted Wednesday night. ...more

September 5, 2008

Cuts reserves, restructures administration department ...more

September 5, 2008

If John McCain becomes president, he will be confronted by a Congress with significantly larger Democratic majorities than today's - majorities furious about high hopes dashed by an eighth Republican victory in 11 presidential elections. And if the normal pattern of off-year elections obtains in 2010, those majorities will expand. So McCain would have to deal with a hostile legislature for four years, as Arnold Schwarzenegger has done for almost five years. For that reason, and because these two self-styled post-partisan, reach-across-the-aisle mavericks admire one another - McCain has given Schwarzenegger a starring role Monday at the Republican convention - it is pertinent to survey Schwarzenegger's governorship of one-eighth of America's population. ...more

August 31, 2008

County Commission, District 1 ...more

August 20, 2008

The budget may be tight, but the City Council on Monday reiterated a pressing need to start saving money for more capital projects ranging from sidewalks to water and sewer infrastructure. ...more

August 13, 2008

The city has begun to take a hard look at how it will make the most of an ever-tightening budget. ...more

August 7, 2008

Joe Stines' news was met with cheers and clapping. The library director told the residents at the Old Seminole Heights Neighborhood Association meeting July 22 that money for a replacement library has been included in next year's recommended budget. ...more

July 30, 2008