Criminal Corner 15: Bradenton man threatens mass shooting
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Criminal Corner 15: Bradenton man threatens mass shooting

Manatee Herald Staff Report Bradenton man threatens mass shooting A 23-year-old Bradenton man was arrested on the morning of Aug. 15 after emailing a threat to shoot up a business that didn’t hire him as a dishwasher, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. According to the arrest warrant, Martin Martinez applied for a dishwashing…

Tales from the Mark Side:  Afghanistan: The cold-blooded lies revealed
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Tales from the Mark Side: Afghanistan: The cold-blooded lies revealed

Tales from the Mark Side The Conservative Voice in Manatee County Afghanistan: The cold-blooded lies revealed By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com It never ceases to amaze me how someone like Joe Biden can be so wrong, but believes himself to be so right. Smugly so, I might add. Time and time again through this brief disaster…

Our Schools Are Targeted By Leftists
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Our Schools Are Targeted By Leftists

Sarasota School Board member, Tom Edwards has made a national name for himself because of his honest confession that he and other woke partisans are working quietly inside the school system to turn our neighborhood schools into incubators for liberal ideology. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to realize that teachers, in…

Tales from the Mark Side: Manatee County Republicans show signs of unity
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Tales from the Mark Side: Manatee County Republicans show signs of unity

Tales from the Mark Side The Conservative Voice in Manatee County Manatee County Republicans show signs of unity By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com Republicans can fight with one another like nobody’s business whether it’s on the national stage or even more so, locally. Those disagreements and personality conflicts have been fairly intense through this election cycle….

Criminal Corner 14: Man arrested for raping 4-year-old
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Criminal Corner 14: Man arrested for raping 4-year-old

In the only court document currently unsealed, the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office has charged Michael Shawn Simmonds Aug. 10 for capital sexual battery involving the rape of a rape 4-year-old boy. Simmonds was already under investigation for lewd and lascivious behavior when deputies also discovered that Simmonds was investigated on similar crimes he is suspected…

Tales from the Mark Side: FBI raid all but guarantees a Trump reelection
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Tales from the Mark Side: FBI raid all but guarantees a Trump reelection

Tales from the Mark Side The Conservative Voice in Manatee County FBI raid all but guarantees a Trump reelection By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com I’m surprised the 30 armed FBI agents who swarmed the home of President Donald Trump didn’t arrive inside a small car and piled out like a bunch of circus clowns because that…

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County Commissioner District 4 Endorsement

The Dalai Lama once said, “What’s past is past, we can’t change it, but we can learn from it.” As we consider which candidate to endorse in the Manatee County District 4 commission race we must examine the past. Recently we have watched government officials use a pandemic to enact over-reaching rules and regulations that…

Tales from the Mark Side: Dear Russia: You can keep Griner and take Biden, too
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Tales from the Mark Side: Dear Russia: You can keep Griner and take Biden, too

Tales from the Mark Side The Conservative Voice in Manatee County Dear Russia: You can keep Griner and take Biden, too By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Biden administration is willing to trade a notorious Russian arms dealer who is responsible for an untold number of deaths, in exchange for an…

Criminal Corner 13: Man Kills Girlfriend’s Father, Says He Did It For Her
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Criminal Corner 13: Man Kills Girlfriend’s Father, Says He Did It For Her

Tales from the Mark Side The Conservative Voice in Manatee County Dear Russia: You can keep Griner and take Biden, too By Mark Young mark.young@manateeherald.com It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Biden administration is willing to trade a notorious Russian arms dealer who is responsible for an untold number of deaths, in exchange for an…