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Joe HendersonNovember 9, 2017

As a member of the Hillsborough County Commission, Jan Platt was best known for a single word: NO! Labels like that tend to stick, but this grand lady was much, much more than that. She fought to protect our waterways and environmentally sensitive land, and she loved to be out on the Bay with a […]

Mitch PerryJuly 7, 2015

The Hillsborough County Charter Review Board meets again tonight at 6 p.m. at the County Center, where advocates for a several years-long push to expand or change the configuration of the seven-member Board of County Commissioners will have one last chance to persuade the majority that such a change is needed. The odds are stacked against […]

Mitch PerryMay 6, 2015

They batted it around for more than two hours Tuesday night, but in the end, the members of the Hillsborough County Charter Review Board were no closer to recommending any changes regarding the current configuration of the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners than they were when they began. For more than 30 years, the board has consisted […]

Mitch PerryMay 4, 2015

For more than three decades, the seven-member Hillsborough County Commission has consisted of representatives from four single-member districts and three at-large seats. The county is much larger now, and a lot of people think its composition needs to change to reflect that growth. In the past few years, there have been two futile attempts to add […]

Tag: Jan Platt

Joe Henderson: Jan Platt leaves legacy of service, integrity

Mitch Perry Report for 7.7.15 – Last call for change with Hillsborough County Board size?

Hillsborough Charter Review Board defers on county commission makeup

Panel to consider new ideas to change Hillsborough BOCC setup