Close readers of The Pasco Tribune are well aware that This Space rarely flinches from wrestling with the hot-button issues of the day, from ill-spent tax dollars to land-use planning to offshore prospecting for oil and natural gas to restoring the Flapjack Festival, to name a mere handful. ...more

November 13, 2009

In the long-running saga of the effort to promote Pasco County's tourism industry nothing has been easy. For years, the county has been socking away a portion of the revenue its tourist development tax generates each year to fund development of a facility that would lure visitors to Pasco. It hasn't, however, had anything it could spend it on. The latest attempt is drawing questions. ...more

November 11, 2009

With the reduction in revenue and property values during the current economic downturn, the Pasco County Commission will be required this summer to make some tough decisions as to what services we will offer next year, the level of service to be provided and how we will pay for those services. Based on letters to the editor, e-mails and one-on-one conversations with residents, we realize we need to do a better job of explaining to our citizens the budget decision process. ...more

March 29, 2009

Six years after the Pasco County Commission agreed to build a national tennis center in Wesley Chapel, the Tourist Development Council has signed off on a management agreement with Saddlebrook Resort. ...more

August 7, 2008

Six years after the Pasco County Commission agreed to build a national tennis center in Wesley Chapel, the Tourist Development Council has signed off on a management agreement with Saddlebrook Resort. ...more

August 6, 2008

Jim McKay, the longtime host of the ground-breaking "ABC's Wide World of Sports" who died in early June at the age of 86, would have loved what is going on in Pasco County. ...more

June 29, 2008

Saddlebrook Resort owner Tom Dempsey and Pasco County officials still are finalizing a management and construction contract for the Pasco National Tennis Stadium. ...more

May 20, 2008

More than five years after the county commission agreed to build a tennis stadium in Wesley Chapel with Saddlebrook Resort, the parties still are at odds on key issues. ...more

January 9, 2008

DADE CITY - More than five years after the county commission agreed to build a tennis stadium in Wesley Chapel with Saddlebrook Resort, the parties still are at odds on key issues. ...more

January 8, 2008

The owners of Wiregrass Ranch have donated 24 acres next to Saddlebrook Resort to Pasco County, clearing the way for design and construction of the planned $7.9 million Pasco National Tennis Center. ...more

October 19, 2007