05-10
“FLEXIBILITY” TRUMPS PRINCIPLE AT CITY COUNCIL!
At the May 18 Regular Meeting of the City Council, the Council voted 4-1 to continue Gulfport’s relationship with the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium. Since the vote will “only” cost the City $6,000 in membership fees over a 5 year period, it would be easy to dismiss the vote as being relatively inconsequential. Apparently, [...]
FWC EMERGENCY MEETING MAY 19!
At 10 AM on Wednesday, May 19 the Commissioners of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, (FWC), will meet at the Tradewinds Island Resorts on St. Pete Beach to discuss the agency’s ongoing response to the Deepwater horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Chairman Rodney Barreto called the meeting nearly a month [...]
GULFPORT WAS RIGHT ABOUT OFFSHORE DRILLING!
When we think our City council is wrong, we’re quick to point out the mistake in the interest of avoiding similar mistakes in the future. Often, when they do something right, we neglect to give proper credit for making the right move. The current oil leakage disaster in our Gulf of Mexico raises the question [...]
GREED! ISN’T IT GOOD?
By Dogfish Our recently gone independent Governor Charlie Crist declares Pinellas county along with much of the Florida Gulf Counties a disaster area, in anticipation of the worst environmental disaster in the history of our country coming ashore and ruining our beach, killing our wildlife, and basically ruining our way of life, just so you [...]
GULFPORT TO HIRE MUNICIPAL LAW FIRM
Once burdened with a slew of City Officials with the word “Acting” before their titles, (City Manager, City Clerk, Police Chief and City Attorney), Gulfport finally is about to retire the term from our letterhead by choosing the option of hiring a municipal law firm and its partner Andrew Salzman as the City Attorney. Thus [...]
THE LEADERSHIP MUST LEAD THE WAY
The leadership in this city MUST step forward and help to mend the fences and subside the anger and rebuild the sense of community of which Cathy Salustri of The Gabber writes in her most recent edition of “Hard Candy”. This cannot happen if the leadership of the City picks and chooses, because of actions [...]