Issue #19 — Friday, July 19, 2013
Big Sugar Greenwashes Everglades Deal and Continues Dumping Harmful Nutrients
Ad Bluster – Using targeted advertising and public relations campaigns to exaggerate an environmental achievement in order to divert attention away from environmental problems … — http://www.stopgreenwash.org/ (Greenpeace greenwashing website) ~~~~~~~~ A couple of weeks ago a mailer arrived in my mailbox. It ballyhooed the recent deal made among sugar farmers, the state of Florida, Read More...
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Is it something like a Spelling Bee, but for composition? Over the 4+ years since I was appointed, I invariably draw the quizzical response “Essay Bee???” when I mention a meeting of the SAB – better known as Key West’s Sustainability Advisory Board. Then, just the word ”Sustainability” will often induce eye glaze-over. Or sudden Read More...
Why I am Still Opposed to Widening and Deepening Key West Harbor to Accommodate Larger Cruise Ships
Points to consider in the discussion of whether to vote for a feasibility study to widen and deepen Key West harbor: The science has been indisputable for a long long time on the negative impacts of siltation and dredging on or near coral reefs. Corals are living permanent structures on the ocean bottom comprised of Read More...
Show and Tell: Reef Relief, Cruise Ship Relief, Money Talks…
The photo above of a cruise ship leaving Key West’s outer mole pier which I have been posting a lot generated conversation with a naval officer, Jim Brooks, who was stationed at Naval Air Station Key West for many years. Jim Brooks: Sloan, that’s one old photo in your blog. It was taken before the Read More...
PECKIN’ The saddest thing I ever did see Was a woodpecker peckin’ at a plastic tree. He looks at me, and “Friend,” says he, “Things ain’t as sweet as they used to be.” – Shel Silverstein Since the 1950’s, at the least, the roof of the tallest building in Key West has been open Read More...
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From Whispered Fantasies To Lickable Truths
As I write this, I’m sitting in the cockpit of my private yacht, my own personal ship, floating in a sea of turquoise, beneath a sky of stars. There is an unrest forming, a casually brewing system of frustration, present amongst many of the finest people I have the joy of being connected to in 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...
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...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nothing says summer like a community party! The Key West Police Department Police Athletic League is teaming up with the State Attorney’s Office and many community partners to throw a Summer Bash Saturday, July 20th at Nelson English Park from noon until 4 p.m. The free party will feature games, good, bounce houses, a Read More...
Key West Art In Public Places Call to Writers
Key West Art in Public Places seeks original poems, prose, lyrics and haiku to be immortalized on the sidewalks of Key West. The AiPP Board invites writers from throughout the Florida Keys to submit original short works for the Key West Sidewalk Poetry Project 2013, a competition that will result in 10 selected poems, along 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…)
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 music classics and Read More...
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