What a combination, DeSantis and Homan. They’re both dedicated to making the lives of immigrants as difficult as possible. What college would host these two? Only New College, De Santis’ mockery of a real college. The issue of birthright citizenship is a dog whistle to MAGA adherents. It couldn’t be clearer, “ if you were born here your a citizen,”end of story!. Jim Tierney
But apparently doing shots of 190 proof alcohol such as Everclear and Long Island ice tea it’s perfectly acceptable in today’s society and legal I might add. Alcoholism is far more destructive than a hemp infused drink. Can hardly wait for the large billboard ads that say. HEMP RESPONSIBLY …. It.its a P L A N T
Major developers have been operating this way for decades because they contributed heavily to previous elected officials who chose to look the other way. That being said it does not negate the fact that laws and policy have been broken and the staff along with Code Enforcment were instructed to look the other way. This is unacceptable when the previous board and administrators instructed staff not to shut them down. That should say something about the moral compass of Staff at the county and not one whistleblower coming forward in years. Apparently the Almighty dollar and a paycheck are more important than the health welfare and safety of our community.
As always…. FOLLOW THE MONEY
Great piece Mitch! Lends specificity, history and context to the issue. Most people just hate Putin for who he is without understanding everything behind it.
Very good article. The simple solution to funding Social Security is to remove FICA cap on earnings. Doing this will provide 1.3 Trillion dollars in new revenue for Social Security. SS will not need that much so the FICA rate can be reduced putting more money in worker take home pay and reducing employer costs also.
Josh Cramer talking about the weather - how informative. What about all the raw sewage being dumped into the river, Josh? How about answering one of my emails related to the 150 thousand gallons of water per day for over 3 weeks that spewed out in my neighborhood due to a broken pipe that the city couldn’t fix? What about the city’s awarding so many contracts to Ron Allen’s NDC Development? What about doing something about the homeless? What about cleaning up all the trash and litter on the east side of your district between 9th and 14th street? You do not deserve to be a public representative - I hope someone runs against you.
Property insurance premiums continue to rise despite State lawmakers and Governor Desantis giving the insurance everything they've asked for. Homeowners are being kicked off Citizens and forced to take more expensive private market policies. Citizens is required to artificially increase their premiums to the level of the private market to protect private insurance companies. Insurance companies are protected from having to pay a plaintiff's legal fees even when the insurance company is found to have ripped off the policy holder. On top of all that, a report was recently released showing that insurance companies are secretly paying themselves, claiming the payments are expenses in order to show losses. They have falsely claimed these losses in order to win legislative protection. Senator Boyd surely knew this as an insurance company owner. All of these problems, yet no local legislator is sponsoring any meaningful responses. In Manatee County, we have shown we can become informed and vote for our own interests at the County commission level. We now need to expand our due diligence to the state level. Boyd, Robinson and Conerly are voting against our interests and should be voted out.
Mayor Gene Brown and his staff have agreed to a public forum to discuss City of Bradenton water and sewage issues, status and updates. There will be a question and answer period. This forum will be held on Wednesday, March 26th, 2 to 3:30 PM at Bradenton Woman's Club, 1705 Manatee Ave. W., 34205. This is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Manatee Democratic Environmental Caucus. Ruth Lawler, 941-350-6085
Years of poor planning and poor maintenance of the sewer system resulted in this catastrophic events taking place. They have known about this problem for years probably decades. Now they wanna borrow 25 million from the counties federal funds that they received because of their poor vision and maintenance policy.
They have no problem, rubber, stamping, multimillion dollar, high-rise condos for a larger tax base revenue and selling off their price possession of City Hall at a fraction of its real replacement value. This is the City Of Bradenton’s leadership and vision.
I have to tell you in all honesty when I was a substitute teacher. I immediately saw the pitfalls of having cell phones in schools. First and foremost it’s not fair to the teachers or the taxpayers because on a daily basis 30% of your time is telling the students to shut off their phone put it away. Stop it from ringing And we are there to instruct not be glorified babysitters at the taxpayers expense think about how much more a student can learn and a teacher can accomplish in actually teaching the extra 30% of that day. Not to mention the insane arguments from students why they have to have it… High school students saying oh what if something happens I have to call my mommy… Some of the parents are just as bad. They have to have that helicopter connection line that benefits no one but encourages the student to push back on why they should have once.. glad it’s finally done at a state level because local school districts are unwilling to move in this direction.
The concept of insurance was originally started as a not for profit shared risk concept by the English ship owners. They knew that a percentage of their ships would be lost at sea but they didn't know whose ships would be lost so they created a pool of funds to help cover this risk. We should remove the profiteering element from today's home owner insurance using the actuaries to calculate risk assessment and charge rates accordingly. The system can be voluntary or mandatory depending on the will of the people. If it is voluntary and you choose not to participate then the risk is all yours. By cutting out the profiteering the rates should be more affordable based on the level of coverage you opt for. This type of risk assessment already exists in the current for profit industry.
This has been a total waste of tax payer money. They have destroyed a renounced liberal arts university, appointed political cronies with ridiculously increased salaries at tax payer expense and created a public boondoggle. The current joke of a college should be absorbed into the Sarasota USF campus and the highly payed president and his cronies dismissed.
Anything to distract from the endless font of disrespect and harm.... His default is to talk about guns when he's not able to solve the more pressing problems.
I definitely plan to call Scott and Buchanan in support of making DST permanent.This is long overdue. How can people be 50-50 about darkness at 5:15pm? Who likes to walk their dog in the dark? Who likes to be stuck indoors after getting home from work? Is it 50-50 because Anheuser-Busch and Netflix have their thumb on the scale? Instead of being able to go for a bike ride, or work in the garden - early darkness limits our options.
People need to be paying attention to this attempt to take away our voice, especially how Boyd, Robinson and Connerly vote. The law already requires 60%, and has increased the number of signatures required while also shortening the time to collect them. Now they want to make it impossible so that only lobbyists make legislation. DeSantis and Tallahassee is the swamp.
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