Manatee County School District Constitution Day essay winners celebrated during a special event
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Manatee County School District Constitution Day essay winners celebrated during a special event

Source: Manatee County School District Three high school students were invited to attend a special luncheon held by the Bradenton Rotary Club and Sons of the American Revolution on September 25, 2023. Three high school students were invited to attend a special luncheon held by the Bradenton Rotary Club and Sons of the American Revolution on…

Hamas Is Evil And Must Be Obliterated
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Hamas Is Evil And Must Be Obliterated

The unmitigated terror we witnessed in Israel reminds us that there is evil in this world. Recently, we have listened as Democrat leftists have equated Israel, Hamas and Iran as just opposite sides of a political debate.  Similar arguments were made years ago as Nazis rose to power in Germany. Many politicians counseled restraint and…

Tales from the Mark Side: The window to the real world is open. Will you look?
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Tales from the Mark Side: The window to the real world is open. Will you look?

mark.young@manateeherald.com Forty dead babies with their heads chopped off. Full stop. Do we even need to expand on the savagery of Hamas terrorists? Paragliding into a music festival and executing hundreds of young, unarmed festival goers? Slaughtering entire Israeli families in their sleep including their pets? Kidnapping, raping and murdering Israeli women and then parading…

Helping The Homeless, People Can Disagree
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Helping The Homeless, People Can Disagree

Democracy requires free and open debate. Good people can differ on major subjects. Just because someone takes a position opposite from yours does not make them immoral, a stooge or an idiot. More often than not, the person hurling invectives against opposing position holders, is giving evidence of their own weak arguments.  We are having…

Manatee County Commissioners Uphold Local Interests in Wetland Protection Vote
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Manatee County Commissioners Uphold Local Interests in Wetland Protection Vote

During Thursday’s Manatee County Commission meeting, commissioners voted to align the County’s wetland buffer zone regulations with those of the state government. The  5-1 vote, with At-Large Commissioner George Kruse dissenting, and District 5 Commissioner Ray Turner absent from the meeting, removes excessive wetland regulations to instead be in line with the state of Florida’s requirements….

April Culbreath Files to Restore our Conservative Voice to the Countywide                    Commission District
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April Culbreath Files to Restore our Conservative Voice to the Countywide Commission District

“Communist Housing” Commissioner George Kruse has betrayed voters on both a personal and ideological level. Bradenton, FL – Career Law Enforcement Officer and local Republican Party Leader, AprilCulbreath filed to restore conservative principles to the countywide seat currently held byradical commissioner George Kruse.Besides his personal issues, Kruse has railed against the Second Amendment, supportedPlanned Parenthood,…

Democrats Pretending To Be Republicans
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Democrats Pretending To Be Republicans

Why are Democrats attempting to infiltrate the Manatee County Republican Party? The Manatee Democrats are out of touch with the conservative mood of this county so they are finding wedge issues to cause Republicans to begin fighting each other. Why are the Democrats trying to convince commissioners to give $6 million to build a homeless…

Democrats in Manatee Are Trying To Silence Elon Musk
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Democrats in Manatee Are Trying To Silence Elon Musk

Elon Musk is one of the most unique people in the world. Starting with nothing, he set a path to be involved in cutting edge battery technology. When the 3 big auto companies, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler gave up on producing electric vehicles, Musk plowed ahead. He took a floundering startup (Tesla) and through…

Politicians Like To Spend, Spend and Spend
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Politicians Like To Spend, Spend and Spend

We are facing a budget crisis in Washington DC, according to the leftist media. Without the House Republicans agreeing to continue current deficit spending, the world as we know it will end. The only reasonable solution, according to the Democrats, is to continue the excessive spending that has exploded in the past decades.  Our country…