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The Superintendent decorated her office and made all district employees come and walk through and have refreshments. Does that count?

Prisoners do actually sort the stuff. Some have even been caught retrieving credit card offers and other things to take back to their cells to be used for nefarious activities. Cindy Meadows indicated in the Walton Sun that to continue the recycling program would require a tax increase...

Walton County rules requiring property ownership to access a public beach are unconstitutional pure and simple. The same for the rules for dog permits. You can not make residency a requirement in your county to access public facilities. You could justify some sort of cost differential but...

When did these guys vote to spend $10 million for a horse park? Where at in Mossy Head? I have not seen this in the minutes or anywhere else for that matter. Or is this just something you are saying to build up opposition to these two commissioners?

Why are those people constantly at the BCC meetings complaining about massive drainage policies with water pouring over roads and through yards? The BCC is constrantly struggling with where they are going to get the money to fix the problem.

For those that were not there take note. Sara Comander held up a handful of emails and said that was the reason she was voting the way she did. Now that she has made it known that those that email her the most win, get your email programs ready. These sort of campaigns have had little effect...

I really doubt it. The whole ordinance that allows driving on the beach is unconstitutional on its face because it discriminates against citizens by requiring property ownership. But since the Republicans do not seem to have much of a problem with Constitutional issues any longer, and it is a...

I am late to this thread but from what I read I thought this information taken from a presentation at a chamber function on affordable housing my change some perspective. The file is attached, I hope.

Maybe just me but I would think that most people would see that I posted to contrary opinions mainly for discussion. It plainly indicates that I did not write either one of the posts but that they were reposts. Maybe something that many here do not see. I personally am not a scientist and...

Journey to Planet Earth www.pbs.org/journeytoplanetearth David Godfrey Sea Turtle Biologist We?re here at Vero Beach, Florida, which is located on the east coast. It?s just south of the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, which is one of the most important sea turtle nesting beaches...

Anti-seawall Arguments Are Soggy The following op-ed was written by PLF Principal Attorney Dave Breemer. A sturdy seawall can do what the legendary commands of King Canute couldn?t: Hold back the tide. When a coastal property is in danger of being eaten away by the ocean?s erosive...

Sorry but we got us a genealogical oddity going on in this county. Ya gotta be related to the current pool to qualify for the big buxs.

Yes.......NO.

The rules are actually a mess. A constitutional crisis, where equal protection is dismissed and those that 'own' or 'reside' in this area have more rights that those that visit. Something totally against the Constitution. Residents believe that the beaches belong to them. But if that is...

So are they the ones that are putting up those illegal snipe signs all over the road? Find it hard to support someone, even a local, that is trashing the county like that. Maybe code enforcement will write them a book of tickets and that will straighten them out.

Cool picture. I can hardly wait for that place to get here. Sure beats those run down cottages that are in the area now. A nice high rise so you can see the gulf. About time someone is getting on board with something like this.

Somewhere I read that one of the owners was running an internet site about this problem. Anyone have any ideas of the location, I would appreciate a post.

And the good citizen that you are will let the authorities know of these homes so that the owners will quit stealing from the rest of us?

The Walton County Taxpayers Association, www.waltontaxpayers.org are currently working on an anonymous reporting module for their website. This would allow you to forward this information without your identity to Pilcher to investigate and to correct. Plans are to also ask the TDC to...

Save Our Homes is making criminals out of honest hard working citizens. Just a look through the tax rolls of whose who in Walton County that happen to own more than one home and you will find many that although seem to live and vote in DeFuniak Springs, our homesteading their vacation homes on...

You must know something I don't because legislators have told me that they have little interest in the concerns of non-voting residents. You need to get the local real estate associations, chambers of commerce, building industry, to email local legislators and tell them if they do not fix this...

The system is so patently unfair that you can not even begin to win. Homesteaded property owners are the ones that get the protection. Why? Because for the most part they are voteres. When you take the pain of slowly rising taxes away from the voters, what do they do? They re-elect tax and...

None of this would even be possible if the registered voters would follow the issues and get out to vote. But if everyone is going to bury their head in the sand and ignore what is going on around them, then I guess Walton County is getting what it deserves. Everyone complains, but no one is...

Re: Just say no The collapse of the tourism market, if you actually believe it would totally collapse would more than likely lead to more affordable housing for teachers, firefighters, police officers, janitors, lunchroom workers, and ditch diggers. The slow down in the real estate market...

Trying to learn all I can about the area and the leaders, I was told that long time democrat Willa Hertwig will be qualifying for the BCC District 4 seat currently held by Rosier Cuchens next week. Does anyone know anything about her? All I ever hear is that she is a life long resident, but I...

Tell me about it. The only place I have ever been where you have to sign in to ask a question.

I must be missing something. How is this the fault of local officials if it went to court and a judge made the decision that it was no longer public? Local officials fought to keep the access, did they not?

I was at a meeting that Cindy Meadows spoke at the other night, and she said that the Planning Commission is currently working on an affordable housing proposal, that she appeard to be in favor of, that would allow 100% increase in densities and would waive the traffic concurrency requirements...

Candidates can qualify by petition method until June 19th, 2006 at noon. For those that wish to qualify paying the fee, they have until noon July 21st, 2006. If they do not submit enough petitions to earn a spot of the ballot, then paying the fee will get them that spot. The fee is based on a...

How is this fair that you take tax support from everyone to subsidize a park only for dogs? Cat owners should unite against this travesty. They could get together and throw kibble into the Gulf.