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STORIES INSIDE
IN PASSING
Several short items on a variety of subjects....
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FROM NOVEMBER 2 ISSUE:
HEARD ON THE STREET
Several short, miscellaneous items....
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FROM OCTOBER 26TH ISSUE:
Brevard's Coming Boondoggle - Part 3
In our first two articles, we introduced you to the plan to waste over $18 million in your tax money on creating and building an Agricultural "CentraPlex" (which is what it is called by its promoters) to exhibit mostly nonexistent agricultural products supposedly produced in Brevard despite the fact that Brevard's agricultural industry is basically "kaput"....
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HEARD ON THE STREET
Three short, miscellaneous items....
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FROM SEPTEMBER 28TH ISSUE:
The Making Of a Brevard Boondoggle - Part 2
In Part 1, you were introduced to a county bureaucrat who holds down what is essentially a "do nothing" job as "County Agriculture Agent" for Brevard despite the fact that agriculture, as an economic activity, has mostly disappeared in this area as land has been sold off for development....
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FROM SEPTEMBER 14TH ISSUE:
IN PASSING
Several short articles on a variety of subjects....
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FROM JANUARY 26TH ISSUE:
IN PASSING
Several short articles on a variety of subjects....
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FROM JANUARY 12TH ISSUE:
BOLIN MAY HAVE VIOLATED STATE CAMPAIGN LAW
Newly elected District #4 County Commissioner Mary Bolin may have violated Florida Election Laws last year by failing to properly separate herself from her county job while campaigning for the commissioner’s position, a BWB investigation reveals....
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FROM DECEMBER 15TH ISSUE:
IN PASSING
As usual the Christmas season prompts us to put the “whistle” away temporarily....
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FROM DECEMBER 1ST ISSUE:
NELSON STILL MIFFED AT COUNTY OFFICIALS
All the congratulatory “pats on the back” by county commissioners and staff the last few weeks over his successful election have not erased newly elected District #2 Commissioner Chuck Nelson’s deep seated anger at being pin pointed as what he calls a “scapegoat” for vast cost overruns within the Brevard Parks and Recreation department....
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TAX COLLECTOR SPENDS THOUSANDS BATTLING UNION
Tax Collector Rod Northcutt is dishing out thousands of tax dollars to a Jacksonville attorney, Mike Grogan, to battle attempts by employees in his agency to organize a union....
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REMEMBERING: SHAMU
The recent news about a killer orca whale attacking a trainer at San Diego’s Sea World brings back memories of my “show biz” stint at San Antonio’s Sea World as the host of the Shamu Show....
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FROM NOVEMBER 17TH ISSUE:
IN PASSING
Our next full update will be on Friday, December 1....
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FROM NOVEMBER 3RD ISSUE:
PUBLIX: “WHERE SHOPPING IS A.....(RIPOFF)”
Publix Supermarkets, whose slogan for years has been “Where Shopping Is a Pleasure” and which promotes little aisle signs proclaiming how “kind” their prices are to your budget, again this year has announced good profits and earnings, according to the Wall Street Journal....
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TUESDAY’S ELECTION (COMMENTARY) The Benefits of Voting Early
I’ve already voted. In fact, all the bad stuff that comes out three or four days before the election misses me (and an increasing number of voters who take advantage of Florida’s “early” voting law).....
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MID-TERM ELECTION NO BRAINERS
The media froth coming your way about the mid-term elections is caused by at least two reasons....
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TOLL ROADS FOR BREVARD?
A dormant, dusty, 34 year old law specially created for Brevard County by the Florida Legislature in 1972, but never used, is now being eyed by some county officials to create revenue for improving county roads they say are falling into disrepair from development growth....
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PREVIOUS EDITION, November 2, 2007
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