What's Going On Here?
The Key West Airport is a mess. Heaven only knows when that project will be completed, if ever. The Freeman Justice Center, a/k/a, the Courthouse, construction appears to be grinding to a halt because the contractor chosen to do the work on the building's facade may not be able to get the $260,000 bond it needs. The County has already agreed to buy the materials for the facade. Seems like there is a basic problem here with the way the County is managing its projects. Maybe it's not the projects but the County's oversight and administration of the projects that needs to be fixed.
The Courthouse construction has certainly given the Truman Annex residents their share of headaches, noise, and dust for almost four years. Anywhere else, such a project would have taken half that time, including the hurricane stoppages. And TAMPOA seems powerless to help the Annex residents who live near the construction zone.
The Courthouse construction has certainly given the Truman Annex residents their share of headaches, noise, and dust for almost four years. Anywhere else, such a project would have taken half that time, including the hurricane stoppages. And TAMPOA seems powerless to help the Annex residents who live near the construction zone.
Labels: politics
posted by Conchette at 8:20 AM
8 Comments:
Wow, you really want to blame TAMPOA for everything wrong that you can think of. You forgot to include that they are doing nothing to prevent hurricanes from hitting the island and seem powerless to prevent global warming. Why didn't you run for the board? Things would have been so much better.
Someone once said, "It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."
Actually, Mr. Suspicious, we were not criticizing TAMPOA. We were simply stating a fact: the prolonged Courthouse construction is annoying to some of the residents in Truman Annex who live near it. And, TAMPOA seems powerless to do anything about it. If you lived near the Courthouse construction, which obviously you do not, you'd have more sympathy for how those Annex residents feel.
In fact, and now we are criticizing, -- just so you'll be clear. It is an attitude like yours of not seeming to care about the plight of your fellow residents near the courthouse construction and of taking everything as a criticism of one's friends on the current and past TAMPOA Board that is symptomatic of just what is wrong with TAMPOA and its circle-the-wagons mentality. Unfortunately that attitude serves to reinforce the lie about Truman Annex that some in Key West believe -- that "those in Truman Annex don't seem to care about anything or anybody except themselves and their property."
And, while we'll leave hurricane prevention to you, we don't think that TAMPOA is powerless to do its share to help prevent further global warming. Can you tell us what, in fact, TAMPOA is doing as its share?
As for not running for the TAMPOA Board, you are right, things might well have been "so much better." They certainly couldn't have been any worse.
We would not have spent almost a million dollars on the Southard street mess. We certainly would have not spent the money to put a silly full page ad in the Citizen. We certainly would have pushed to keep the website more up to date. We certainly would have fostered better communication with Annex residents and kept those residents better informed about what the Board was (is) doing. And we certainly wouldn't have allowed TAMPOA assessments to go through the roof with no end to the raises in sight. (And if you believe there will be not more raises in assessments, as the federal litigation and its aftermath drone on, there's a bridge we'd like to talk to you about buying).
So much for your freedom of speech list of ways to get a response published. You can give criticism but have a difficult time taking it. Your actions speak louder than your words. Too bad.
You got this one published didn't you? Guess we do believe in freedom of speech after all.
Yeah, but how many "embarrassing" responses do you hide while letting one or two through to try to APPEAR to not be censoring those you disagree with? Oh, I forgot, if you don't like it, you'll call it an "attack" or something to give you an excuse to not post it.
The only way that this "forum" will ever come close to being unbiased is if pre-approval is turned off and the "10 ways to get posted" list goes away. Before you turned it on there was no problem with libel here....
We disagree. We publish a variety of view points and we think our criteria for publication is pretty liberal. Of course, like any news media, we reserve our editorial privilege.
Actually, many blogs do not permit anonymous comments or any comments unless the commenter is registered with blogger.com and has a blogger screen name. We may have to go that route eventually.
Well, still censoring blog responses.
Attagirl!
As stated in our publication policies, like any news media, we have always reserved the right to publish or not publish comments. If that is your idea of censorship -- it's not ours -- then so be it.
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