I watched the presentation also the leading question by the county attorney to push for continuance. Her job is not to give advice to developers. This property is out in the country, surrounded by million dollar homes and farmland, and they have the audacity to call it an infield project, once again the roads are not ready, not all the infrastructure it is there on a 55 mile an hour single lane highway. Future Land Use doesn’t mean today it means future and that could mean a month a year a decade let’s get it right this time after the miserable failure of the last four years and rubber stamping every development that comes along. Slow the roll….
While the new animal ordinance was an improvement, it does not address the issue of health problems after a sale is made.There is nothing in the ordinance that requires a guarantee to an animal's good health for even one week. There is nothing in the ordinance that requires a refund, or that the seller pays even one penny of any veterinarian expense after the sale. Reinstating the ban on selling puppies was part of what brought out so many residents to wave signs and vote for change last August. Manatee County should join Hillsborough, Sarasota, Orange, Seminole, Volusia, and over 70 other Florida municipalities in rejecting an industry that profits from the cruelty of forced, lifetime impregnation of dogs in deplorable conditions. We should be part of the solution. Our community should not be a place that harbors a business model that exacerbates the pet overpopulation problem - especially while our shelter and rescues are full of unwanted animals. Our county commission, acting as the elected representatives of the community, has the constitutional right to regulate commerce. Both State and Federal courts have spoken clearly on this issue. These kind of ordinances have not once been challenged successfully. These businesses are not selling furniture. They are selling what is mass-produced in dark, windowless, cruel, overcrowded, and unseen places. This is a morality issue. "The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made" - Psalm 145:9. We are not obligated to roll out a welcome mat.
Hey Feb 7th I wrote the city had not filed financial disclosures since I left. Well today I see the financial data on the website. Guess they read the Bradenton Times.
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Hopefully, those who have a backbone will look at this and remove the tax cuts for the rich!
I guess those who voted for Trump have been lied to again. What's new.
To be successful voters need to act now and great leaders such as Glenn Compton need to encourage getting the clean water amendment before the voters on the 2026 ballot. That is the path for Floridians to take to get the state to follow the will of the people for protecting the environment — our voters have supported it consistently, but had their mistakenly elected officials find ways to defund or declaw the publicly supported intentions. Clean water is pivotal to a clean environment, if the water is protected, it can only flow through a healthy environment, they are two sides of a coin. The clean water amendment takes away the ability of the bought and paid for legislators to prevent compliance — once the will of the people is in the constitution it is beyond their tricks. Once they become useless to their "investors" the no longer bought and paid for go looking for a new con — when the massive funds that influence uninformed voters will cease to flow, civic-minded folks will win primaries and hold offices instead of the bought and paid for... sign the petition, help get others to sign the petition — let's get the proposal onto the ballot for the voters to decide whether Florida can have clean and healthy waters. It now is up to voters to get this citizen initiative onto the ballot before the rumored threat to close that path becomes the future. https://www.floridarighttocleanwater.org/
— Ah, yes, Project 2025 — clear warnings were sounded when its objectives were released publicly as the guide for the next presidential administration. Public outrage ensued. Even though his past and intended future staff member was a significant author of the plan to destroy the republic, the candidate denied —any— knowledge of p2025 (although at the same time saying that many of its proposals were bad which proved the lie to me). Many folks were reassured by the blatant lies and enough of them voted for the candidate to get him elected. Surprise, surprise... and now our elected officials (see who voted in favor) have sent the author on a greased slide to the position that will act out all the scenarios in living drama (en masse) in order to see whether they will survive, slipping under the radar or by surviving legal challenges that might catch them in time to prevent or repair damages. We have one option to exercise: replace our elected officials at the mid terms in 2026 with folks who will live up to our expectations and be loyal to our republic and its constitution. No king Mu$k for me... no vassel from the Trump family pretending to be the executive... no 19-year-olds handing up my private information and the keys to my financial accounts to their childish idols... no milking of anything of value from us as they treat our country and our lives like a takenover business to be discarded after being bankrupted — I have no intention to merely watch the live show — and I hope others do not either.
Governor DeSantis chose to expand a college that did not have sufficient land to expand upon. Politicians don't admit to making mistakes and reverse course. Instead they double down, throw money at it and use their political appointees. First, they tried to buy SRQ Airport land, but the FAA rejected it. They got the Manatee County Commission to give them land last year, but Manatee County rejected giving them more land this year. Now they are going after FSU's Ringling Museum and USF-SM for their land and financial resources. Political overreach like this comes with one party state government, like Russia and China. We need to change how we elect our representatives, please consider Open Primary Elections and Ranked Choice Voting.
Clearly, the "political hostility" was initiated by the property owner. The misleading statement released by Mariposa amounts to a cover up hoping to keep making a profit from the hispanic community. They want to have their cake and eat it too. These kind of scenes are an extension of the hatred being expressed online and from political leaders.
Manatee County is lucky to have Angel Colonesso as our Clerk of Court. Whenever I've called, the employee is polite and professional. Her office replies promptly to inquiries. If they don't provide the service or information requested, they make suggestions. One can feel confident that public records will be provided as required by law and in good faith. No long delays, punitive charges and games being played like I've experienced requesting records from Manatee County.Years ago I made a complaint re a shortage of computer workstations at the law library. Ms.Colonneso personally responded, thanking me, and then expediting additional work stations. Our Clerk of Court office is what good government looks like.
The previous BOCC in the county were always controlled by the developers To the detriment of our community. They had no empathy for the public, common sense and the safety of the public. Their main goal was to secure funding for their next election. It was the greed of developers and the puppets on the board of county commissioners that have destroyed our county with over-development. It's time to right the wrong and moving their direction of a moratorium. I Applaud commissioner Robert McCann in bringing back sanity common sense back into the meetings. For far too long the public has been marginalized not only in public comment but total disrespect for our opinions in the past. Hopefully those days are over for good
Once again, a deal done by the previous board of county commissioners with no accountability. You would think that spending $21 million would at least have an open discussion with the public, possibly a town hall meeting for the stakeholders involved. Leasing back half of the land for $10,000 a year are you kidding me who makes that kind of deal in the interest of the public, no one in their right mind. Any previous deal made by KVO should be subject to scrutiny by an outside professional commercial real estate appraiser. The County Attorney should also weigh in on this and not the outside private firm the seaport has. The revised agenda was never accessed by the public and only to the commissioners. The new board should not grant the director of seaport any authority to negotiate any purchase for sale concerning to real estate. He has shown poor negotiating skills that is better left to professionals. SeaPort Manatee Director Carlos Buqueras has lost his way in communication with the public and the BOCC. He comes in with these last-minute agenda changes like he was dealing with the old board and can do whatever he wants. Those days should be over, Time for a new director.
I agree the flyover bridge holds merit to be strongly investigated. It was highly controversial in Tampa when they did their flyover above Gandy Ave., but it has made a huge improvement to traffic both ways. It will not take away from local business, those who need gas, food etc. will follow current 41, those who are traveling directly north can save a lot of time without suffering through the lights and traffic as it is right now.
Overlooked among connections of Gruters to the president is that Gruters is the master of all of the dark money traveling to the president — it all passes through the enriched purse of Gruters and into untrackable oblivion — of course Gruters is the eager * beaver * for the president and most appreciated by the president for keeping folks in the dark about his darkest secrets. Perhaps the governor should reconsider the plumb job given to Gruters's wife — does not look as if that has produced the desired effect for the governor, woneder whether that is being reconsidered? Of course, destroying New College of Florida was to be a stepping stone — not a millstone.
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