Category Archives: Fire and Ambulance
The Spin Machine – Under the Hood
Monroe County contributed a couple of items to the Blue Paper about capital projects in the Upper Keys. This appears to be an offshoot of the county’s “Craptacular” spreadsheet deception strategy. The idea is to hyper-focus attention on Upper Keys projects in … Continue reading
Tragic Accident in Key Largo
I hate to see awful stuff like this. Three killed in what sounds like a confined space accident. Three contracted utility workers died Monday morning after becoming overwhelmed by gas fumes inside a drainage trench located in a Key Largo … Continue reading
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BOCC Missing The Point on Emergency Vehicles
Monroe County is still at it. The other day I wrote about how Sylvia Murphy has blocked fair funding for her own district – again. Meaning that folks in Key Largo are being subjected to double taxation – again. While … Continue reading
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Murphy Blocks Needed Funding For Fire and Emergency Services – Analysis
Sadly, the Odious Sylvia Murphy was re-elected to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) this past August. Since then she’s wasted no time in seeing to it that her constituents in District 5 get the screwing they’ve come to expect. … Continue reading
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The Idiocy Continues – Cudjoe Fire Station
Another day, another over-budget project. What makes this one special is that the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) took steps to contain costs rather than simply gripe and then rubber stamp the spending. Although Carruthers, no paragon of financial restraint herself, … Continue reading
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Finally – A Response
The county finally answered my public records request about fire and emergency vehicles. It took them three weeks from beginning to end. I submitted my first request on September 10. I got the information on October 3. What’s interesting is … Continue reading
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Monroe County Mishandling Public Records Requests – Again
I’m very curious about the county’s refusal to fund emergency vehicle purchases for the Key Largo area. I’d like more information about that. It’s a serious issue involving public safety. So on September 10, I submitted a public records request. I heard … Continue reading
Carruthers and Her Cronies – Forgot One
Comm. Heather Carruthers proposed the Emergency Services Surtax (ESS) back in January. The idea was to “shift” more of the cost burden of fire and emergency services from locals to tourists. Unfortunately, the “white paper” written to support this proposal … Continue reading
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Emergency Services Surtax and Human Services
Comm. Carruthers tried to cloak her self-serving Emergency Services Surtax (ESS) proposal in some appealing promises to get people to bite. That proposal is supposedly dead for now. But from Carruthers’s point of view, its too good to stay dead for long. I have … Continue reading
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Emergency Services Surtax – Tavernier
Tavernier, like Stock Island, is one of those sub-areas that has special issues when it comes to Comm. Heather Carruthers’s Emergency Services Surtax (ESS) proposal. Local residents in Stock Island will be especially hard hit by the ESS because of its high proportion … Continue reading
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The Real Poop 