Pasco County's large contingent of residents of Greek ancestry gathered for a recent ceremony marking the 188th anniversary of Greece's independence from the Ottoman Empire. Hugh Townsend presided over the observance Friday in front of the West Pasco Government Center in New Port Richey. ...more

April 1, 2009

Fourteen local clubs and organizations earned $37,852.69 to give back to the community by staffing precincts on Election Day last month, Supervisor of Elections Brian E. Corley announced recently. In the Adopt-A-Precinct program, volunteers from the groups are paid the standard poll worker wage. Adopt-A-Precinct participants, however, agree in advance to donate their Election Day salaries to a charity of their club's choosing. ...more

December 27, 2008

The Border Patrol has finished installing razor-sharp barbed wire atop a 5-mile stretch of fence on the Mexican border, an addition critics call heavy-handed and an eyesore. ...more

November 20, 2008

Alert citizens residing within the cozy confines of Pasco County can be forgiven if they are not caught up in, oh, what was it MSNBC.com called it? Ah, here it is: "Beltway Buzzes Over Obama Transition." ...more

November 7, 2008

More than 100,000 Pasco County voters took advantage of early or absentee voting to avoid the long lines predicted for this historic election. ...more

November 5, 2008

6:00 p.m.: Sometimes "big problems" at the voting precincts aren't really big problems at all. But that's how issues are often characterized by the time they reach a reporter's ears. ...more

November 4, 2008

8:07 a.m.: Pasco County is experiencing technological glitches at five of its 139 polling places, says Brian Corley, the county's Supervisor of Elections. "We are one of 16 counties in the state that switched to electronic poll books," says Corley. "We have five precincts where the activators do not want to play nice, and we are coming up with some anomalies." So, instead of swiping a license or state ID card through an electronic reader at those sites – including Precinct 43 in Holiday – poll workers are using the old-fashioned method, checking names against a printed book of eligible voters. ...more

November 4, 2008

After he was released from prison and pardoned for drug trafficking last year, Richard Paey looked forward to many freedoms. ...more

November 2, 2008

In the race for supervisor of elections Republican Brian Corley is squaring off against Patricia Carroll, a Democrat, in the Nov. 4 general election. ...more

October 25, 2008

If Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Brian Corley and challenger Pat Carroll are actually friendly rivals for Corley's job, they disguised it well. ...more

October 25, 2008