Opinion: affordable housing is under attack in Florida
This is your wake-up call, Florida, and we need your help to save affordable housing. Last week, Senate President Wilton Simpson and Speaker of...
LETTER: BILL PENALIZES LEGAL LIVEABOARDS IN KEY WEST & THE FLORIDA KEYS
The bills currently before our state legislators, House Bill 639 and Senate Bill 1086, which would require anchored boats in Monroe County to move...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: CRUISE SHIP PROPONENT USED TO BE ‘ONE OF THE GOOD...
I won’t take up too much of your ink on the curious claims made by Ed Swift in his recent letter. He says he...
LETTER TO EDITOR: CRUISE SHIP OPPONENTS MISLED KEY WEST VOTERS
Last week, Arlo Haskell, treasurer of Safer Cleaner Ships, wrote a letter about the state legislative bills that would void Key West's vote for...
WILD THINGS: WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PAINTED BUNTINGS
The name bunting comes from a Scottish word that basically means plump. That seems judgmental. If they are plump, they are pleasingly plump, and...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: LEGISLATION WOULD NOT GIVE THE STATE CONTROL OF OUR PORT
As a native Key Wester, and local ships’ agent, I want to share why Senate Bill 426 and House Bill 267 are a vital...
There really is good music out there!
After the seventh installment of Songs I Never Want To Hear Again, perhaps it’s time to give props to some of the really good...
KEEPIN’ IT SIMPLE AT SEA
I hail out of the port of Marathon, Florida, but about the time I see holiday stuff in the stores I start thinking of...
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER EXPLAINS SCHOOL SCHEDULE & PARENT SURVEY
(Editor’s Note: The following submission comes from Monroe County school board member Sue Woltanski.)
Get informed. Choose wisely.
On March 29, parents of 6-12th grade students...
WILD THINGS: THE SUBTLE GENIUS OF SWALLOW-TAILED KITES
The kite shot out from nowhere, just above the road, doing something of a bootlegger turn, its face angled one way, its body sliding another....
