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...
CRUISE SHIPS: IS KEY WEST CRUISIN’ TO A LAWSUIT?
Key West officials on July 12 echoed the desire of the Committee for Safer Cleaner Ships to apply the voter-approved cruise ship reductions at...
DOUBLE STANDARD? WILL KEY WEST ACCEPT $5M FOR PORT REVENUE WHILE TURNING AWAY CRUISE...
The state is offering $5 million for lost port revenues, revenues from cruise ships that Key West officials no longer want and are turning...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
