While We Were AWOL
While we've been away from blogging for a week, the news has not waited.
In KW, according to The Citizen, the City has announced it has narrowed the field for the new City Manager to six. Our prediction is the new manager will be a Navy man, with the Coast Guard rear admiral a close second. We'll just have to wait and see if our read of the political tea leaves is accurate.
Paris Hilton, reportedly, will make a foray to KW on her way to an all important date on or about June 5 with a Los Angeles jail. Nothing like taking the long way around.
The hurricane insurance battle continues in the legislature. A Senate Bill has passed freezing Citizen's rates until 2009, but there is much left to be done to push insurance reforms ahead. The battle will continue, as will the efforts to derail any reforms.
The costs for the Monroe County Courthouse continue to increase.
And, TAMPOA has made good on its pledge to re-file the lawsuit against the City and the United States that had been dismissed by the federal court in April. The filing was not quite as quick as TAMPOA had announced it would be, but the suit has been re-filed (with a new case number). The TAMPOA suit starts anew, and TAMPOA must re-serve the defendants with the new summons and complaint.
TAMPOA has learned from the dismissal though. This time around, the summons is typed, not hand written (an insignificant matter, but it does show attention to detail, and it just looks better). This time around, TAMPOA got the summons for each defendant issued right away on the day of filing the new suit (May 8) instead of waiting for some time as in the previous case. And now, the City and its Mayor, instead of the City Attorney (as in the previous case), are listed (in the summons for the City) as those to whom the summons is addressed and from whom a response is requested. We hazard a guess that someone may have gone over these papers (and perhaps the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) with a fine-tooth comb before they were lodged with the Clerk of Court. We'll have more to report in the coming weeks as the suit progresses.
In case you haven't noticed, the sky is a different color at sunset these days. It's the wild fires from the mainland that are having an effect.
In KW, according to The Citizen, the City has announced it has narrowed the field for the new City Manager to six. Our prediction is the new manager will be a Navy man, with the Coast Guard rear admiral a close second. We'll just have to wait and see if our read of the political tea leaves is accurate.
Paris Hilton, reportedly, will make a foray to KW on her way to an all important date on or about June 5 with a Los Angeles jail. Nothing like taking the long way around.
The hurricane insurance battle continues in the legislature. A Senate Bill has passed freezing Citizen's rates until 2009, but there is much left to be done to push insurance reforms ahead. The battle will continue, as will the efforts to derail any reforms.
The costs for the Monroe County Courthouse continue to increase.
And, TAMPOA has made good on its pledge to re-file the lawsuit against the City and the United States that had been dismissed by the federal court in April. The filing was not quite as quick as TAMPOA had announced it would be, but the suit has been re-filed (with a new case number). The TAMPOA suit starts anew, and TAMPOA must re-serve the defendants with the new summons and complaint.
TAMPOA has learned from the dismissal though. This time around, the summons is typed, not hand written (an insignificant matter, but it does show attention to detail, and it just looks better). This time around, TAMPOA got the summons for each defendant issued right away on the day of filing the new suit (May 8) instead of waiting for some time as in the previous case. And now, the City and its Mayor, instead of the City Attorney (as in the previous case), are listed (in the summons for the City) as those to whom the summons is addressed and from whom a response is requested. We hazard a guess that someone may have gone over these papers (and perhaps the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) with a fine-tooth comb before they were lodged with the Clerk of Court. We'll have more to report in the coming weeks as the suit progresses.
In case you haven't noticed, the sky is a different color at sunset these days. It's the wild fires from the mainland that are having an effect.
Labels: City Manager, Federal Case, Insurance, politics, Pop Culture, TAMPOA
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