Tales from the Mark Side:A 200th column surprise! Meet the VP
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Tales from the Mark Side:A 200th column surprise! Meet the VP

mark.young@manateeherald.com It’s always amazing to reach a milestone and that is definitely what our 200th visit is all about! According to Larry Elder anyway. I had no idea 200 columns was a big deal until I heard Elder talk about it during one of his egotistical rants about how Larry Elder thinks Larry Elder is…

Tales from the Mark Side: Post GOP debate polls: The winners and losers
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Tales from the Mark Side: Post GOP debate polls: The winners and losers

mark.young@manateeherald.com I admit that I get a little giddy when I see something that shows Americans are paying attention. It does my heart good and the post GOP debate polls were pretty much along the lines of what I expected, assuming that Americans were indeed focused. If it was the intention of Vivek Ramaswamy to…

Tales from the Mark Side: And the winner of the first GOP debate is …
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Tales from the Mark Side: And the winner of the first GOP debate is …

mark.young@manateeherald.com It was a little laughable watching Fox News brag about how 13 million people tuned in to watch the first GOP debate. I laughed the next day when they released their numbers because Tucker Carlson’s X (formerly Twitter) interview with President Trump began with 75 million views and at last check was up to…

Your Car Costs More Because Of Democrats
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Your Car Costs More Because Of Democrats

Car prices are rising for hard working Americans. Higher interest rates and government regulations are making the cost of car ownership much more expensive and both of these reasons can be attributed to Democrat Party initiatives. We often hear the Democrats claim to be looking out for working Americans. In reality, their policies benefit the…

Tales from the Mark Side: The wolves are at the gate and they are hungry
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Tales from the Mark Side: The wolves are at the gate and they are hungry

mark.young@manateeherald.com Unfortunately our scheduled visit this week isn’t timed well with the Republican debate airing on the day I write this, so you can bet I’ll have a lot to say in our next visit on Monday. Spoiler alert: I’ll remind Chris Christie that given his scandals as NJ governor that he does not hold…

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Dont Let Our County Commission Turn Our Towns Into San Francisco

Some Manatee County commissioners are ready to make a disastrous decision that will potentially bring San Francisco’s homeless problem to Manatee. For decades, social workers have believed that the homeless community could be normalized if they were provided with free housing. Major cities like New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles have provided…

Tales from the Mark Side: What Gov. DeSantis doesn’t understand about Trump supporters
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Tales from the Mark Side: What Gov. DeSantis doesn’t understand about Trump supporters

mark.young@manateeherald.com I’m not one to be the pretentious guy who likes to say, “I told you so,” but umm … I told you so. If you remember when the speculation had only just begun on who may or may not get into the GOP presidential primary season, I predicted a Ron DeSantis run would prove…

Tales from the Mark Side: Dems to tout “accomplishments” of Kamala Harris. Huh?
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Tales from the Mark Side: Dems to tout “accomplishments” of Kamala Harris. Huh?

mark.young@manateeherald.com Have you ever been in an argument with someone and present the facts to them, ask them for their facts and all they can do in their frustration is say something along the lines of, “I’ll get back to you on that.” That’s essentially what democrats did this week when they released a brief…

Democrat Teachers Unions Fail Their Students
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Democrat Teachers Unions Fail Their Students

Why do Manatee Democrats hate charter schools? Why do Democrats across our country use the court system to undermine charter schools? It is ironic that the Democrat Party, which claims to be fighting for minorities, is determined to quash charter schools. Charter schools have proven they can raise the test scores of minority students but…