07-10
BUDGET WORKSHOPS PREDICT NO TAX RATE INCREASE!
In case you don’t know it, your City Manager has been meeting regularly with the City Council in a series of Budget Workshops in which he sought overall policy direction and then bounced his 2010-2011 budget proposal off the Council for their reaction. It is the Manager’s job to present the budget to the Council [...]
“….AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM.”
Most of you don’t know that soon to be 5th grader Catherine Hicks of 45th St. South, Gulfport made a heartfelt presentation to the City Council seeking their help in saving Clam Bayou and her feathered friends who live and die there. It was a wonderful presentation and we have provided the full text below. [...]
JOIN THE CROWD AT GECKOFEST ON SEP. 4!
The theme is “Mardi Gras meets the Renaissance,” and it’s the 10th anniversary of Geckofest that started small and now brings up to 15,000 people into “downtown” Gulfport to celebrate the end of our hot summer and the beginning of 9 months of sublime weather that makes our area Paradise. This year’s Geckofest promises to [...]
IS THE INCOME A FAIR TAX?
By Dogfish I think we are all in agreement that the United States Income Tax Codes are not fair. We all can see that the tax codes are written for special interests even some you might be in. When I was younger and more naïve, I viewed the tax code as the governments way to [...]