An advisory panel recommended Monday that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 17, 2009

An advisory panel recommended today that the 12,800-acre Cone Ranch stay in public ownership forever, and be managed under Hillsborough County's conservation lands program. ...more

November 16, 2009

City Manager Sarah Adelt scored an average of 71.7 percent on her evaluations by city council members. In evaluation standards that's "good." But several critical comments on her performance, by two council members, stood out. ...more

November 6, 2009

The Cone Ranch Advisory Committee, of which I am a member, was asked to listen to the proposal by Florida Conservation & Environmental Group and recommend to the Hillsborough County Commission the best way to preserve and protect Cone Ranch. ...more

November 6, 2009

When Dade City Commissioner Camille Hernandez made a motion last week to repeal the town's ban on private irrigation wells, she said it was about conservation and property rights. ...more

October 21, 2009

When City Commissioner Camille Hernandez made a motion last week to repeal the city's ban on private irrigation wells, she said it was about conservation and property rights. It was wasteful to force homeowners to use city's potable drinking water to sprinkle their lawns if they could afford to drill a well, she argued. She was convincing, winning a 3-2 majority vote to repeal a decades-old ordinance. ...more

October 20, 2009

$754 million: proposed fiscal year 2010 budget $5.73: property tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value ...more

September 24, 2009

The Sept. 9 precautionary boil water notice for several streets in Avon Park has been rescinded following the action taken to correct the problem and the satisfactory completion of the bacteriological survey, showing that the water is safe to drink. ...more

September 14, 2009

Placid Utility Water System customers in the Tomoka Heights subdivision experienced emergency water shutdown on Monday to repair a 10-inch water line. ...more

August 19, 2009

BUDGET BY THE NUMBERS $754 million proposed fiscal year 2010 budget $5.73 property tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value ...more

August 7, 2009