The Tampa City Council late Tuesday pushed forward a plan that by next fall could mean residents of several West Shore neighborhoods will be taxed about $8,000 to dredge the silted canals in their backyards. ...more

December 19, 2007

County officials urged people to avoid any contact with Pebble Mound Creek near Memorial Highway and Bay Pointe Drive for the next several days after a pipe spewed 150,000 gallons of sewage into the waterway. ...more

December 19, 2007

TAMPA - County officials urged people to avoid any contact with Pebble Mound Creek near Memorial Highway and Bay Pointe Drive for the next several days after a pipe spewed 150,000 gallons of sewage into the waterway. ...more

December 18, 2007

The mud is likely to fly when Tampa City Council holds a public hearing Tuesday on a plan to clean clogged canals in South Tampa neighborhoods. ...more

December 17, 2007

I want to make this simple for the City Council, the city attorney and the Tampa Port Authority's attorney. ...more

December 11, 2007

As property owners and officials continue debating the dredging of South Tampa canals, one question looms ...more

December 1, 2007

The city council will decide Dec. 18 whether to take another step toward taxing waterfront property owners to pay for canal dredging. ...more

December 1, 2007

Homeowners moving into this new waterfront neighborhood in the late 1960s paid $5 a year for sea wall repair and canal maintenance. ...more

November 29, 2007

Much has been written about the waterway management plan to dredge the residential canals in Tampa. As the Co-Chairman of Tampa Canal Preservation & Restoration, I have personally worked with waterfront neighbors and the city to create this plan and would like to answer the most common objections. ...more

November 15, 2007

Thursday marked a new era in the leadership of the Hillsborough County Commission. ...more

November 9, 2007