Editorial: Bureaucratic Incompetence Costs The Taxpayers
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Editorial: Bureaucratic Incompetence Costs The Taxpayers

How often do we see the taxpayers money wasted because government bureaucrats fail to use good business practices in our local governments. In the late 1980’s Manatee County entered into a contract with NDC, a local construction company to build the downtown county office building and parking garage. Normally parking garages should last for 50…

Tales From The Mark Side: The democrats are coming! The democrats are coming! … to Manatee County?
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Tales From The Mark Side: The democrats are coming! The democrats are coming! … to Manatee County?

“Democrats are up to no good, my fellow Patriots. The local democratic parties spanning Manatee and Sarasota counties say they believe they can turn this area blue.”, Mark Young

Manatee County: Budgeting for Inflation
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Manatee County: Budgeting for Inflation

As President Ronald Reagan famously stated, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” For the past 18 months, the Federal government has been printing money as fast as their printing presses can pump it out. The plan to “fix” the perceived short-term problems has fundamentally broken a once thriving United States economy. We are all now left to deal with the consequences.

Editorial: High IQ Stupid People
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Editorial: High IQ Stupid People

America’s urban area inhabitants are the victims of “high IQ stupid people”. We have seen beautiful cities become uninhabitable because social studies and anthropology majors from northeastern colleges have been allowed to unleash their favorite professors’ theories on the unsuspecting inhabitants of what used to be well-run cities.

Editorial: False Accusations of Racism in Manatee County
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Editorial: False Accusations of Racism in Manatee County

One of the few certainties in today’s highly charged political environment is that when one side in an argument is losing they will accuse the other side of being racist. My argument does not make sense so obviously my opponent is racist. We find this label often used by Democrats to accuse Republicans of racism. …