OPINION: PRO-CRUISE SHIP AGENT IS WRONG AGAIN
Dear Editor,
Just before a huge cruise ship left a trail of mud a mile long and 300 yards wide coming into Pier B, John Wells again spewed...
OPINION: A TARNISHED WIN FOR THE PORT OF KEY WEST
Dear Editor,
For the first time in a long time, something remarkable happened in Key West this week. After 17 months, a cruise ship entered Key West Harbor....
OPINION: WINDJAMMERS ON WHITE STREET
The “windjammers” were in full force at the City Commission meeting on Oct. 5. There was so much warm air blowing from the dais, Captain G.R. Steadman,...
KEY WEST OFFICIALS WANT CRUISE SHIPS OUT; CITY ATTORNEY WARNS OF CRIPPLING LAWSUITS
Key West's city officials want out of their 27-year marriage to cruise ships and to the privately owned Pier B dock. That much was clear from the...
CRUISE SHIP OPINION: DERELICTION OF DUTY & THE ULTIMATE STATE PRE-EMPTION
To the astonishment of most, but not all, a bill is being drafted in Tallahassee to dissolve the entity known as the City of Key West, transferring...
DEBATE CONTINUES AS CRUISE SHIPS MAKE A CONTROVERSIAL RETURN TO KEY WEST
Two cruise ships returned to Key West on Nov. 27, one at Mallory Pier and one at Pier B. Another is due to arrive on Thursday, Dec....
KEY WEST’S CRUISE SHIP DEBATE CONTINUES TO DIVIDE THE ISLAND
The political and personal split that has marked Key West’s ongoing cruise ship debate for nearly two years became a physical divide on Thursday morning, when the...
ATTORNEY ADVISES KEY WEST TO RENEGOTIATE CRUISE SHIP CONTRACT WITH PIER B
Key West should renegotiate its cruise ship contract with Pier B rather than try to restrict the operations of a private business, the city’s new cruise ship...
CRUISE SHIP COMPROMISE? CITY COULD CANCEL SHIPS AT ITS PIERS WHILE THEY CONTINUE AT...
Key West could cancel cruise ships at the two piers it controls, capitulate to their continued use of the privately operated Pier B and seek possible concessions...
CRUISE SHIPS: NEW RULES ARE UNDERWAY IN KEY WEST
Could this be it? Could a resolution be imminent after nearly two years of Key West’s great cruise ship debate?
We’ll know at the city commission’s special meeting...
