KEY WEST’S LAWYER SAYS CITY IS VIOLATING PUBLIC RECORD LAWS
Key West’s attorney is concerned the city is violating state laws.
City Attorney Shawn Smith has told Mayor Teri Johnston and Dona Higginbotham, the consultant who’s coordinating the...
BY THE NUMBERS: KEYS WEEKLY’S 2022 ELECTION COVERAGE
Voters in Florida and the Keys kept their governor, their U.S. senator, their South Florida U.S. congressman and their Florida Keys state representative, all of whom are...
BREAKING NEWS: KEY WEST CITY ATTORNEY SUBMITS SCATHING RESIGNATION LETTER
Key West City Attorney Shawn Smith called it quits on Wednesday, Nov. 9, tendering a scathing resignation to the mayor and city commissioners after 16 years as...
KEY WEST SUSPENDS 3 FROM FIRE DEPARTMENT
Preparations and planning for Hurricane Ian in Key West apparently didn’t go entirely smoothly.
A Sept. 27 altercation at City Hall between Deputy Fire Chief Eddie Perez and...
KEY WEST OFFICIALS HEAR POST-STORM KUDOS & CRITICISM
Key West’s Oct. 6 commission meeting started with compliments about community cooperation in the wake of Hurricane Ian, but ended with questions, concerns and criticisms.
Randy Sterling, director...
BREAKING NEWS: CASE DISMISSED FOR KIM HIGHSMITH & STEPSON
No charges will be filed against Key West city commission candidate Kim Highsmith or her stepson, Thomas, both of whom were arrested Tuesday, Sept. 20 on misdemeanor...
KEY WEST CANDIDATE ARRESTED FOR MISDEMEANOR BATTERY
A “difficult family situation” escalated this week, when Kim Highsmith, a candidate for the Key West city commission, and her 18-year-old stepson, Thomas, both were arrested Sept....
RACIAL TENSION RATTLES KEY WEST CITY HALL
Racial tension rattled city hall Wednesday during discussion of a museum dedicated to Key West’s Black educators and indigenous people. The president of the proposed museum’s nonprofit...
IN PICTURES: FLORIDA LT. GOVERNOR JEANETTE NUÑEZ VISITS KEY WEST
Lieutenant Gov. Jeanette Nuñez walked under a giant Cuban flag that drapes the facade of the historic San Carlos Institute on Duval Street, when she visited Key...
HUMOR: TOP 10 THINGS OVERHEARD AT THE POLLS
More than 18,000 registered voters – about one in every three – cast ballots in the Aug. 23 primary election in Monroe County. For those who were...
