A crowd is expected this morning when the Hillsborough County Commission discusses health care benefits for domestic partners of county employees. ...more

January 22, 2009

Kevin Beckner, Hillsborough County's first openly gay commissioner, is about to reopen the potentially explosive issue of giving health care benefits to the unmarried domestic partners of county employees. ...more

January 17, 2009

Concerns about traffic, parking and noise sank a rezoning request Tuesday that would have allowed construction of a stadium for the Tampa Bay Rowdies professional soccer team. ...more

January 14, 2009

The owners of the Tampa Bay Rowdies professional soccer team withdrew its request to build a 5,000-seat stadium in Town 'N Country this morning after it appeared county commissioners were preparing to vote against a zoning change. ...more

January 13, 2009

Hillsborough County needs to quit talking about attracting high-paying jobs and start getting specific about what it will take to become an economic powerhouse, county commissioners said Thursday. ...more

December 12, 2008

TAMPA -- Hillsborough County needs to quit talking about attracting high-paying jobs and start getting specific about what it will take to become an economic powerhouse, county commissioners said today. At their annual goal-setting meeting, several commissioners expressed frustration with vague notions such as visions and strategic goals that never move the county off dead center. ...more

December 11, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners saluted retired sheriff's Col. David M. Parrish Thursday as a visionary in modern and efficient corrections management. ...more

November 7, 2008

Hillsborough County commissioners today saluted retired sheriff's Col. David M. Parrish today as a visionary in modern and efficient corrections management. ...more

November 6, 2008

In 1953, Hillsborough County sold a quarter acre of land on a dirt road to the Community Baptist Church for $100. ...more

August 21, 2008

Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio is taking the lead and pushing hard to give Hillsborough voters a chance, finally, to say yes or no to a rail transit proposal. ...more

August 17, 2008