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Mall Builder Pledges To Protect Creek

The developers of Cypress Creek Town Center on Thursday outlined plans to correct problems that last month flooded a nearby creek with muddy water. ...more

February 8, 2008

Trading The World At A Price

From a nondescript corporate office complex off Fowler Avenue, Paul Bissett can dial up spectacular aerial views of just about anywhere on the planet on his computer screen. Beaches in Port St. Joe. Rural colleges in Ohio. Maps of utility lines in the West. ...more

February 7, 2008

Cypress Creek Mall Builder Offers Plan To Shield Stream

WESLEY CHAPEL - Less than a week after federal officials suspended a developer's right to develop part of its property, Cypress Creek Town Center officials today outlined plans to correct problems that last month flooded a nearby creek with muddy water. ...more

February 7, 2008

City OKs Bid To Build Public Works Facility

The city has signed off on plans for a new public works facility. ...more

February 7, 2008

Hillsborough's Scandalous Anniversary

Today is a key date in Hillsborough County's history, though not one that merits celebration. Twenty-five years ago three Hillsborough County commissioners, charged with taking bribes from developers, were led from the courthouse in handcuffs. ...more

January 31, 2008

Narrow Wetlands Exemption Is Justified

It's understandable that environmental activists would worry that an agricultural exemption to Hillsborough County's wetlands rule will create a loophole that allows widespread abuse. ...more

January 19, 2008

Purchase To Preserve Wetlands Parcels

On paper, it looks like Hillsborough County is willing to pay nearly 20 times the official value of about 7 acres of swamp to add it to a 2,000-acre preservation parcel known as the Alafia South Prong. ...more

January 16, 2008