School needs should be paramount in land use, If increased teaching time, greater educational achievement and lower juvenile crime aren't significant public interests, then what are? That is the question now tossed to the Southwest Florida Water Management District, which must consider environmental permits for the Pasco School District to build a new high school in Wesley Chapel. The district plans middle and elementary schools on adjoining land, all of which are earmarked to open in August 2006. But the high school construction will affect wildlife habitat significantly, according to the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, which voted Monday to recommend the school district seek another site. Barring that, it recommended construction with mitigation to be determined later, if the project is "determined to be of overriding public interest." It should be an easy determination. Requiring a new site and delaying the construction start will have far-reaching consequences. Notably, it increases the likelihood of double sessions at already crowded Wesley Chapel and Sand Pine elementary schools, Pineview and Weightman middle schools, and Land O'Lakes High School. FULL STORY The Proliferation of Polls - Where Are the Parameters? By Marion Edwyn Harrison, ESQ. | February 11, 2005 Pollsters should have been embarrassed by their inability to call the almost across-the-board Republican victories in November 2004. The proliferation of polls appears more and more to reflect the triumph of ignorance over knowledge. Although the experts - alleged experts? - doubtless would deny it, clearly the appearance is that pollsters are as grasping, persevering and shameless as they are imaginative in parodying and parroting - parodying a poll as meaningful, parroting the results as meaningful. In 1936 the Literary Digest poll mercifully went out of business after it predicted that Governor Alf M. Landon would defeat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second-term bid. For some years the American public managed without public-opinion polls. In due course manufacturers and merchandisers utilized more esoteric surveys to attempt to sell product. Whether the commercial sales effort metamorphosed into the public-opinion poll is debatable. In any event, public-opinion polls began to proliferate from the seemingly indefatigable Gallup to a myriad of big-league and little-league competitors. FULL STORY Our mission is to provide you, the People of East Pasco County and New Tampa with an Interactive Informational Resource. We want you, the people of Wesley Chapel involved in this enterprise. We want to know what issues are important to you. We want your input on those and any of the issues we cover. We really only want to focus those topics that affect our community. In other words "A Town Hall Meeting on the Internet." So check us out and tell us what you think. We are adding new features almost daily. We are developing a Travel Section. Our Computer/Internet information page also allows you to E mail your questions to us. We will reply to ALL E mail. Remenber you have an unalienable right to express your opinions and have them heard.

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