CRUISE SHIP OPPONENT SAYS COSTLY LAWSUIT IS ‘EXTREMELY UNLIKELY’
The committee that spearheaded Key West’s cruise ship reductions is downplaying the potential costs of a lawsuit city officials expect from the owners of Pier B if...
OPINION: CRUISE SHIP BATTLE MIRRORS THE ‘JUNGLE BOOK’
Disney’s great production of Kipling’s “Jungle Book” has a parallel in recent Key West politics. The honeyed words of the Kaa-like spokesman for Safer Cleaner Ships (SCS)...
OPINION: SAFER CLEANER SHIPS’ PROJECTIONS ARE UNREALISTIC & DECEPTIVE
As Safer Cleaner Ships (SCS) seeks to convince the Key West City Commission to adopt SCS’s proposed cruise ship ordinances, which would bar almost all of our...
OPINION: KEY WEST CRUISE SHIP DEBATE NEEDS BOLD LEADERSHIP
At the Sept. 1 city commission meeting, City Attorney Shawn Smith reported that a prestigious law firm in Tallahassee reversed an earlier decision and declined to represent...
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST COMPLICATE KEY WEST’S DEFENSE OF CRUISE SHIP LIMITS
The attorney nominated by Safer Cleaner Ships to defend Key West’s right to curtail cruise ships against anticipated lawsuits has “conflicts related to cruise lines.”
Joe Jacquot, who...
COULD KEY WEST COMPROMISE ON CRUISE SHIPS?
City lawmakers changed the course of Key West’s cruise ship conversation on Oct. 5, introducing words like, “compromise,” “mediation,” “stakeholders,” “discussion” and “input from all sides” —...
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,...
CRUISE SHIPS COME BACK TO KEY WEST ON SATURDAY
Two cruise ships are coming back to a much different Key West on Saturday. Much has changed since they last visited in March 2020. So much.
Most cruise...
