Pasco County government offices, courts, community centers and libraries will be closed Monday 5/25 for Memorial Day. ...more

May 23, 2009

Free income tax preparation services began recently at Hillsborough County's University Area Community Resource Center and will continue until April 15. ...more

February 4, 2009

Pasco County officials are keeping a close eye on a pilot project by Accurate Waste Systems to expand curbside pickup of recyclable trash. ...more

January 22, 2009

Pasco County officials are keeping a close eye on a pilot project by Accurate Waste Systems to expand curbside pickup of recyclable trash. "I'd like to see all the haulers doing it," Commission Chairman Jack Mariano said about following Accurate Waste Systems' example. ...more

December 31, 2008

In February, County Commission members suggested carving Pasco into exclusive service areas for the county's private garbage haulers. Since then we hadn't heard much of the idea. For a while, we were hoping the commissioners were merely pulling an April Fools' Day joke a few months early. ...more

December 6, 2008

County commissioners today were dumping on trash haulers for dragging their feet on changes to the way they operate Pasco officials first suggested during a workshop in February. ...more

December 2, 2008

Pasco County government offices, courts, community centers and libraries will be closed Tuesday for Veterans Day. ...more

November 8, 2008

People should always be wary when government, on any level, tackles a seemingly big problem. Often in such cases, Murphy – his famous law warns that if anything can go wrong it will – tends to be an optimist. Even worse, the resulting storm and stress can provide cover for either mischief or plain wrong-headedness. ...more

February 16, 2008

The County Commission received a lot of calls last week from people expressing opposition to expanding the Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility. What spurred the calls – a flyer that appeared in many Pasco mailboxes last week. The mass mailing warned of possible pollution from an expanded resource recovery facility, which burns garbage to produce electricity. The flyer conveniently listed the number of the County Commission office. ...more

February 12, 2008

A flyer mailed to many Pasco residents lit fires of opposition to expansion of the county's waste-to-energy plant. "Stop the Expansion of the West Pasco Solid Waste Incinerator at Shady Hills," the banner headline on the flyer proclaimed. It referred to the Pasco County Resource Recovery Facility on Hays Road. ...more

February 2, 2008