Issue #32 — Friday, October 18, 2013
Where Do Derelict Vessels Come From?
“You gotta get me off this thing! I don’t want to drown out here! And my dogs! We don’t have a dinghy!” It’s five o’clock in the morning. The woman crying on the phone is Sonia Eliott who is stranded on a sinking boat near Wisteria Island. Actually, as we write this, she is still Read More...
Simonton Street Trailer Park: Forsaken Promises…
It’s a completely dilapidated trailer kept very clean and homey, enveloped by a reef of flowers, a contradiction explained away by the one single sign painted on the door: “Life is Good.” Or at least it was. Today, gesturing with one hand to support her plea in broken English and with the other hand holding Read More...
When an ordinary person knowingly violates a city’s code that’s an issue between that individual and the city. It isn’t news. When someone who is running for Marathon city council flagrantly violates the code it is news. That “someone” is Mark Senmartin and his case is illustrative of both the failure of government and the Read More...
AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO OUR REEFS THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CRUISE SHIPS OR DREDGING… Years ago Dr. Brian LaPointe was the primary scientist instrumental in forcing our Federal and State governments to admit that land based pollutants affect marine ecosystems and can kill corals… it’s a no brainer but it took years for Read More...
Good Morning Florida Keys With Jenna Stauffer, An Interview With Sloan Bashinsky
Sloan Bashinsky, a frequent contributor to Key West The Newspaper’s Island Voices section, was recently interviewed on Good Morning Florida Keys With Jenna Stauffer [WEYW Nineteen] about his views on homeless issues. [Sloan was formerly homeless living on the streets of Key West.] [The video below is Part 2 of the interview. See Read More...
Marathon Information Request Gets Zip
When the city of Marathon’s city council gave its final OK to partnering with Crane Point Hammock to develop a zip-line attraction in the nature reserve, city councilman Dick Ramsay insisted on accountability. At a May 14, 2013 council meeting, Ramsay moved to approve the conditional use permit subject to property deed restrictions, a hold Read More...
What Happened To The Voter ID Controversy?
It seems like only yesterday that the state requirement that citizens had to have photo identification to vote was controversial. More than controversial, actually. Proponents of the law argued that requiring that voters show up at the polling places with photo IDs was just part of a larger effort to try to prevent voter fraud. Read More...
Monroe County Approves Gravity Funding
On Wednesday, the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners, at it’s monthly meeting, approved two resolutions that provide funding of almost $ 11 million to expand the number of subdivisions getting gravity sewers rather than low pressure grinder pumps. This change will affect 1,152 of the almost 2,800 EDUs or homes originally slated for grinders. Read More...
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...
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 THE BURGLAR, THE VIGILANTE, AND THE AXE OF Read More...
Reflections on Columbus or Happy Genocide Day
Here we are, another celebration of Columbus Day has passed, and every year it gets just a little bit more embarrassing, bordering on surreal. We citizens of the United States are slowly waking up to the reality that the Americas were heavily populated by natives and doing just fine without European “civilization”. The fact that Read More...
***IMPORTANT EVENT THIS TUESDAY*** October 22nd Harvey Government Center
You are cordially invited to attend our flood insurance discussion. I know that you are all engaged in this issue due to its great importance to us here in the Florida Keys. We are seeing negative economic impacts and delayed and canceled transactions. Just as importantly, we all know that many people here are already Read More...
Washington: We Need More Teams In The Game
How many of us would sit down to Sunday night football if there were only two teams and they only ever played each other? Isn’t that exactly what we’ve been watching in Washington? When Nader was campaigning for President the D’s and R’s were bonded in their mission to keep him out of the limelight Read More...
PETITION DRIVE: Can The Simonton Street Trees Be Saved?
37 of 45 MATURE AND PROTECTED TREES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK AS PART OF SIMONTON STREET TRAILER PARK RE-DEVELOPMENT THE BLUE PAPER RECEIVED THESE SIGNED PETITIONS LAST NIGHT… CLICK HERE FOR LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF TREES MORE SIGNED PETITIONS (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…)
The Love Lane Gang plays music that spans generations, as well as embodies them. The emphasis is on swing: classics from the 1930s and 1940s, done in a refreshing new style that incorporates the Hot Club approach with island flourishes. Dust Bowl ballads, old school country from Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, rockabilly and surf Read More...
Southernmost Car Club Holds Show & Shine, Sunday October 2oth
The Florida Keys Southernmost Car Club (FKSCC) holds its monthly SHOW & SHINE this Sunday, October 20th. This event is for the lovers of classic, custom, and street rod automobiles of all years and makes. Fords, Chevys, trucks, sports cars, and chrome loaded motorcycles. If it cool and on wheels it will be here. This fun afternoon Read More...
Southernmost Car Club Holds Show & Shine, Sunday October 2oth
The Florida Keys Southernmost Car Club (FKSCC) holds its monthly SHOW & SHINE this Sunday, October 20th. This event is for the lovers of classic, custom, and street rod automobiles of all years and makes. Fords, Chevys, trucks, sports cars, and chrome loaded motorcycles. If it cool and on wheels it will be here. This fun afternoon Read More...
Sail with Danger in Support of Latin Arts Festival, Sunday October 27th
Danger Charters will host a fundraising Wind & Wine Sunset Sail this Sunday, October 27, for the upcoming 2nd Annual Key West International Latin Arts Festival. Normally priced at $ 75 per person, the highly acclaimed upscale cruise includes fine wines, artisan beers, light hors d’oeuvres and on October 27, a birthday cake for festival co-producer Read More...
Sponsors, Volunteers and Artists Sought for 2nd Annual Key West International Latin Arts Festival
Sponsors, volunteers and visual artists are sought for the 2nd Annual Key West International Latin Arts Festival ¡Esperando Nacer! 2013, set for November 9 and 10. The two-day celebration of traditional Latin American cultural arts will include dance and percussion workshops, Latin American artists exhibits, poetry readings and a theatrical concert featuring InnerNacionalSound’s Christian Monzón Read More...
Call to Artists for the 2nd Annual Key West ChalkFest
The Key West Art in Public Places Board announces a call to artists for the 2nd Annual Key West ChalkFest, to take place November 21-24. Local and visiting artists will use the promenade alongside the seawall at the Truman Waterfront as their canvas for intricate and colorful chalk art creations. Adult and student categories; prizes. Read More...
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