The Blue Paper #3

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Mar 292013
 

Issue #3 — Friday, March 29, 2013

REVERSE TEA PARTY

Balfour Beatty’s Tax Loophole Unconstitutional?

Lawyers are poised to challenge a tax loophole, sought by Balfour Beatty/Southeast Housing in the Senate this week, as discriminatory and unconstitutional. Under the proposed legislation not only would Balfour Beatty (a giant British conglomerate) not pay future property taxes in Monroe County, but the company would also be pardoned for the $ 11.3 Million Read More...

Balfour Beatty's Tax Loophole Unconstitutional?

Lawyers are poised to challenge a tax loophole, sought by Balfour Beatty/Southeast Housing in the Senate this week, as discriminatory and unconstitutional. Under the proposed legislation not only would Balfour Beatty (a giant British conglomerate) not pay future property taxes in Monroe County, but the company would also be pardoned for the $ 11.3 Million Read More...

Court Rules Privatized Military Housing Industry Must Pay Property Taxes

As Balfour Beatty prepares to go before Monroe County Circuit Court over its property tax exemption claim, another circuit court has ruled that the privatized military housing industry must pay property taxes. On Monday April 1 at 1:30 p.m. at the Monroe County Courthouse, Balfour Beatty’s attorneys will try to convince Judge David Audlin that Read More...

Who Owns Our Keys Legislators?

We have probably all had our sneaking suspicions that money flows indirectly into the campaign war chests of just about every politician, and we accept it as a sad reality.  But with the advent of the latest “Internet Cafe” scandal that has led to the resignation of Florida’s Lt. Governor, we thought we’d take a Read More...

GREEN Reactor: KING of the ROAD

Listening to “citizen input” at the Key West Sustainability Advisory Board’s workshop on bicycling this week, I was presented with the idea that Key West should be a town were automobiles take a back seat to the island’s bicycles. Interesting concept.  It’s not entirely new, since there are other bicycle-centric communities out there.  Some are also Read More...

Is Sustainability Possible in the Keys?

There’s been a good deal of discussion lately about what people are calling “sustainability.” Five or six years ago, all the environmental chatter centered on “being green” but as that term has lost any real meaning, many in the environmental movement have moved to emphasizing becoming sustainable. Key West has launched a sustainability advisory committee Read More...

FEATURED ARTIST JUSTIN ALSEDEK

  Presenting Featured Artist Justin Alsedek (more…)

Don’t Allow Dredging of Seagrass Meadows

Open Letter To South Florida Water Management District: I am writing in regards to the ERP permit application 080610-13 to dredge an entrance channel to Walker’s Island. I am vehemently opposed to such a proposition. The area surrounding Walker’s Island is a seagrass meadow, rich in biodiversity, and its waters are within the Florida Keys Read More...

Don't Allow Dredging of Seagrass Meadows

Open Letter To South Florida Water Management District: I am writing in regards to the ERP permit application 080610-13 to dredge an entrance channel to Walker’s Island. I am vehemently opposed to such a proposition. The area surrounding Walker’s Island is a seagrass meadow, rich in biodiversity, and its waters are within the Florida Keys Read More...

Water Conservation Efforts Require Decoupling of Rates From Sales Volumes

Editor, Congratulations on your launch of The Blue Paper and thank you for Michael Welber’s article about the water supply implications of the state’s failure to restrain development in the Keys. I’d like to elaborate on one of the fundamental obstacles to reducing demand for utility water and a solution. American’s consumption of water is by Read More...

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Florida Keys Council of the Arts Cultural Calendar Thursday, November 6 thru Wednesday, November 12

Visit keysarts.com, Cultural Calendar for more listings and events throughout the Keys. Key West Happenings ARTISTS RECEPTIONS / EXHIBITIONS Thursday Polar Opposites Opening Reception, 6 PM Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene St. 294-3973. Luckystreetgallery.com James Barr-Nobles, B. Lucy Stevens. (more…)

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The Blue Paper #2

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Mar 222013
 

Issue #2 — Friday, March 22, 2013

Representative Holly Raschien Tries To Rescue Balfour Beatty

FLORIDA KEYS V. PRIVATIZED MILITARY HOUSING INDUSTRY

With Florida legislators preparing to tell citizens of Monroe County to tough it up and forget about taxing Balfour Beatty and the privatized military housing industry, you would think the federal government was not taxing those companies.  Think again. Balfour Beatty, the British mega-corporation that owns title to all 890 units of military family housing Read More...

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation) admits it has completely lost control over whether or not the work is on schedule on Roosevelt Boulevard. For months representatives of FDOT have reassured Key Westers that the work on the Boulevard is progressing “on schedule”. In the meantime many businesses on the Boulevard are free-falling. “My retail business has Read More...

What Happens When There’s Not A Drop To Drink?

Citing the “delicate balance to be had in the Keys between public safety and property rights,” Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on Thursday voted to allow 3,550 new residential units to be built in Monroe over the next decade. That lead paragraph in the Florida Keys Keynoter referred to the governor and cabinet’s Read More...

Strength In Numbers

Yesterday, I joined a union for the first time in my life. At one time here in south Florida, between the 1960s and 1970s, we nurses tried to form a union and were threatened with the loss of our jobs if we continued to pursue it, so it never got off the ground. Last week Read More...

Bon Apertif!

In its second Friday edition, The Blue Paper (Key West the Newspaper) knocked the lights out again. I feel like an amateur compared to Naja and Arnaud Girard’s investigative reporting, and Arnaud’s Technicolor editorial cartoons are a piercing howl. The second edition strips naked as jay birds Balfour-Beatty, State Legislator Holly Raschein and bribed state legislators determined Read More...

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DEATH IN PARADISE:  A YEAR LATER [CHARLES EIMERS MEMORIAL] NOWHERE TO RUN:  NEW VIDEO DEVASTATING TO KWPD CREDIBILITY [CHIEF LEE DEPOSITION VIDEO] EIMERS IN-CUSTODY-DEATH UPDATE: MISSING VIDEO SURFACES KATHY SMITH, LEAD FDLE INVESTIGATOR IN CHARLES EIMERS CASE PUT ON ADMINITRATIVE LEAVE KWPD & FDLE, PARTNERS IN CRIME? CHARLES EIMERS UPDATE: Police, Death, and Missing Videotapes   Read More...

Florida Keys Council of the Arts Cultural Calendar Thursday, November 6 thru Wednesday, November 12

Visit keysarts.com, Cultural Calendar for more listings and events throughout the Keys. Key West Happenings ARTISTS RECEPTIONS / EXHIBITIONS Thursday Polar Opposites Opening Reception, 6 PM Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene St. 294-3973. Luckystreetgallery.com James Barr-Nobles, B. Lucy Stevens. (more…)

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The Blue Paper #1

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Mar 152013
 

Issue #1 — Friday, March 15, 2013

ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD CONSTRUCTION

Roosevelt Boulevard Sewer Contractor Was Debarred From Working With Dade County After Being Accused of Bribing A Utility Inspector

Who is John Chaney? According to FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation) the alleged drunk driver and cop-briber is not one of the contractors working on the Roosevelt Boulevard construction project.   Not only is FDOT lying to us, but interestingly enough for Key Westers, Chaney’s involvement is in laying water/sewer pipe, a portion of the project Read More...

KEY WEST BATTLES PRIVATIZED MILITARY HOUSING COMPLEX

To avoid paying 11.3 Million dollars in back property taxes giant British conglomerate Balfour Beatty (BB) is asking a judge to disregard its property title on 890 units of housing located in Key West.  BB argues that it’s not the “real” owner of those units, that the homes “really” belong to the Navy and they Read More...

CRANE POINT ZIPLINE FLOUNDERING

Some residents of Marathon may be beginning to wonder whether those running Crane Point Museum and Nature Center will be able to manage the process of constructing a controversial zip-line attraction they plan. That could mean taxpayers will have to bear the financial burden of what could be a potential failure and possible foreclosure on Read More...

BLUE is the new GREEN

After over 50 local articles in most of the local papers (not to mention all those letters to the editors), I’ve happily come aboard the brand new local journal: The Blue Paper.   The old “Blue Paper” was just the nickname for “Key West The Newspaper” or “KWTN”; this new journal is really named “The Blue Read More...

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FEATURED ARTIST REBECCA RANKIN

Presenting Featured Artist Rebecca Rankin. (more…)

Florida Keys Council of the Arts Cultural Calendar Thursday, November 6 thru Wednesday, November 12

Visit keysarts.com, Cultural Calendar for more listings and events throughout the Keys. Key West Happenings ARTISTS RECEPTIONS / EXHIBITIONS Thursday Polar Opposites Opening Reception, 6 PM Lucky Street Gallery, 540 Greene St. 294-3973. Luckystreetgallery.com James Barr-Nobles, B. Lucy Stevens. (more…)

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