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Posted on October 30 at 8:40 p.m.
You missed McCain's Faux pas on the campaign trail which beats them all: Picking Palin for VP
Posted on October 28 at 8:11 p.m.
Angry-you are a very talented mud-slinger who sounds like one who has an old agenda. You wouldn't dare make these slanderous comments and sign your name. This is the underside of posting.
Bill Moss has done nothing to warrent this defaming. Bill Harrison has not been found to be anything less than honest with the Marco books.
Your disdain for government might be ameliorated if you participated in a positive manner, helping to build the kind of community, city, and county in which you would like to live.
Armchair cynicism, used to bash innocent men who are working hard to bring you the best government services they can, do not deserve to be treated like this.
If you live on Marco, next time you drive onto the Island notice the beautiful entryway and the welcoming landscaping and attractive lights. These will all benefit the value of your home when the market turns around because the town looks so cared for. This was created with the skillful management of the City's government and the local tax base.
You will feel better when you start noticing the positives. And then start contributing to help the rest.
On Marco's finance director retires amid questions of city financial practices
Posted on September 21 at 9:05 a.m.
*It appears that the NDN auto-censor has changed the word d@mning to blasteding. The sentence should have read: The investigative results are d@mning.
Posted on September 21 at 9:01 a.m.
A decision was reached out of the sunshine to fire Baker and to hire Thompson. In fact there was a conspiracy out of the sunshine to arrange the grounds for Baker's firing by hiring Thompson's school district's firm to review the course credit issue that Dorene McShea was personally angry about.
There is the possibility that Doreen McShea and teacher Walters manipulated the school board members Donovan and Calabrese with Abbott's orchestration. Abbott is the common denominator. It is completely possible that she has committed a conspiracy to defraud the citizens of Collier County if there is such a crime.
This is the most important story the Daily News has been involved in. The investigative results are damning. The consequences of the actions of this school board are devastating and every effort to bring those guilty to justice should be pursued.
Posted on September 21 at 8:14 a.m.
The article about Monaghan emphasizes the reason why the separation of church and state is so important. In order to protect freedom of religion, we have to have a democratic political system that is elevated above any particular religion. When anyone attempts to impose their personal religious beliefs on another through legislation they are trampling the rights of those who do not share those beliefs.
Each person has the protected right to practice their personal views such as not having an abortion. That is a personal choice. It is a private choice that is protected by the Constitution. The Constitution similarly protects the private choice of a woman to have an abortion. It protects her ability to make private decisions from any particular religious doctrine by elevating her personal freedom to make decisions, by law, above the right of a church to impose its views.
Monaghan is attempting to disrupt the Constituition by carving out a Catholic town that imposes its dogma on the inhabitants. He attempted to prevent the sale of contraception in the town. And it is clear from this article that he is attempting to force his personal religous convictions on others by using our political system.
No taxes should be used to assist the building of Ave Maria because public money should not be used to promote a particular religion.
On Tom Monaghan becomes national power broker for GOP Catholic candidates
Posted on September 14 at 9:19 a.m.
NDN has decided it is a 'hyperlocal' newsmedia and without real researched reporting on articles of national importance your readers are filling the void. Here's an article (and link for full story) that has been fact checked from today's NYTimes:
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes-
WASILLA, Alaska — Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/...
On Jeff Lytle: Whole Foods raises the standard ... unlike election letters
Posted on September 7 at 10:27 p.m.
Rationality is reappearing in the great state of Florida. Enough of the Bushes...
If this is the best that it has to offer, banish the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission... Apparently meeting every twenty years is too often.
Posted on September 7 at 12:25 p.m.
Two points: 1) This increased budget may secure the jobs of those in the Natural Resources department.
2) Other jobs lost in the City are due to the cutbacks in the City's ability to deliver services. When the taxes supporting the City are reduced, services are reduced. When the building industry collapsed, the need for the city employees involved in permitting and planning and so on, no longer had funding or responsibilities.
Posted on July 13 at 9:36 a.m.
The City Councilors are elected officials representing the people who elected them. You and I are the people who elected them. They do as we wish if we participate in the process.
If we do not participate, then unregulated market forces will dictate the evolution of the downtown area. We no longer have a Wynn's grocery store downtown because the Wynns could make more renting out their spot there.
The pharmacy moved out after being there for a generation because the market value for rents priced them out.
These two stores were part of what made 5th Ave. S. a draw for the local residents.
We can decide whether to let market forces dictate the future of 5th Ave. or whether we want to offer some kind of incentive to keep specific types of stores in the local mix.
If we can draw local residents to the downtown and increase the pedestrian accessibility through, for example, creating shade over the sidewalks, and redesigning 'four-corners' where 41 heads north(south) at 5th Ave. so that it is safe to cross there (have you ever seen pedestrians crossing there?).
Fifth Ave. S. is embedded within a residential community. This means its development needs to be with an eye to integrating the needs of the locals.
On the other hand, the locals are not all year-round residents so the downtown, to survive the summer, needs to be able to rely on tourists as well.
Do we value local small business owners? Are we willing to support them with our patronage? Are we willing to make arrangements to entice more small businesses to draw locals?
The City Council is tasked with doing our will. If we don't come up with a cohesive solution ourselves, then we have to hire outside 'experts' who may not really know us very well.
City staff just carries out the wishes of the Council. We have to take responsibility if we expect the results we want.
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Posted on December 3 at 5:34 p.m.
Jeb Bush's policies of privatizing the management of the Medicaid and Medicare programs has nearly bankrupted the state. Hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payer money has been drained off these programs annually into the likes of WellCare, a company whose offices were finally raided in Tampa for fraud.
Jeb Bush is tightly aligned with the ideological rightwing policies of his brother President Bush. He pushed vouchers at the expense of the public schools. He resisted public pre-k instead supporting a private alternative.
The Foundation for Excellence in Education is NOT non-partisan. It is aligned ONLY with the most right wing think tanks promoting vouchers and tax payers' money for private education. Its 2008 summit was composed of policy experts from the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute and Hoover Institution. http://www.excelined.org/Program/View...
Do not be fooled into thinking this a mainstream political candidate. He is now the anointed prince of the Bush dynasty drawing on the remaining ulter-rightwing coffers. We need new blood, new thinking, not more of the same that got us into this economic mess. We need legislators who care about the people first not profits first.
On Jeb Bush bid for Senate could clear GOP field