At the first budget hearing two weeks ago, only 10 citizens offered comments and the proceedings concluded in just over one hour. ...more

September 24, 2008

The Palm Beach Post is reporting that U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney moved his voter registration from a Highlands County ranch on Fisheating Creek to a horse barn near Palm Beach Gardens. ...more

September 20, 2008

Residents in unincorporated Hillsborough County got a slight reduction in their property taxes Thursday night and the prospect of further reductions next year. ...more

September 19, 2008

City employees who are doing a good job will get a raise, if a modest one, after all. ...more

September 19, 2008

District officials may be working with less, but students shouldn't feel the pinch. ...more

September 18, 2008

For several years, elected officials at every level have been promising big tax cuts. Voters, when finally given a chance to weigh in on the issue in January, overwhelmingly approved an amendment that was part of what Gov. Charlie Crist called the largest tax cut in Florida history. ...more

September 14, 2008

The School Board of Highlands County approved a slight increase in the ad valorum tax rate and approved its 2008-09 budget. ...more

September 12, 2008

A year after one of the most heated budget hearings in recent memory, the County Commission blazed through its first budget hearing in 63 minutes Thursday evening. ...more

September 12, 2008

The cost of everything else is going up, but city property taxes won't. ...more

September 11, 2008

Decreased. It's a word used often in the summary of the county's proposed budget for fiscal year 2009. ...more

September 10, 2008