Hernando County's beleaguered mass transit system, seemingly on life support since the day it debuted due to low ridership numbers, appears to have been spared from death yet again. ...more

January 29, 2009

Football players don't usually find themselves longing for a good, old-fashioned practice, but the Arizona Cardinals definitely had reached that point this morning. ...more

January 28, 2009

Residents showed up in force at Weeki Wachee Springs Tuesday night to query Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials about the future of the state's newest park. ...more

January 22, 2009

Amtrak is suddenly hot, and nowhere is hotter right now than Tampa. Florida's 14.6 percent gain in passenger traffic from October 2007 through September 2008 is almost a third more than the national increase, and the Tampa station is leading the way. The city leads Amtrak's passenger growth in Florida with a whopping 33.5 percent gain in ridership in the last fiscal year. ...more

January 13, 2009

The Hernando school district will be crunching more numbers to balance this year's budget in the coming weeks. ...more

January 13, 2009

Lawmakers' plan would cost PHCC more than $800,000. ...more

January 12, 2009

Tampa leads Amtrak's passenger growth in Florida, with a 33.5 percent gain in ridership to 100,119 passengers from fiscal 2007-08. ...more

January 12, 2009

67 Percent of Americans polled by the Washington Post-ABC News highlighting the economy as the top priority for Obama and the next Congress ...more

January 4, 2009

A lot of people make resolutions this time of year, and our county, cities, towns and schools should be no exception. Of course, most people break resolutions, and by the time you read this, several are already tossed, but it's critical that our governmental entities stick to theirs. ...more

January 2, 2009

A program that began quietly a decade ago is attracting close attention now that increasing numbers of veteran workers in state and local governments qualify to get both retirement pay and a big salary. ...more

December 28, 2008