Palm Beach Post headline today (8/24), front page, above the fold: "CASINO QUANDARY: Lake Worth's pool could face shuthown"

This is old news, folks. Most of you paying attention knew about this two (2) weeks ago since it was reported in The Lake Worth Herald and on this blog. This BIG NEWS in the Post is from the City's August 9th Budget Workshop. Not exactly what you'd expect to see below the banner on the front page. But. . .

Did you know the pool WAS SHUT DOWN before? It's true. Happened in 2010:
Our precious amenity at the BEACH!, the Lake Worth municipal pool, was shut down to save money. JoAnn Golden was a commissioner in the City then and so was current Commissioner McVoy. Our precious pool wasn't making enough money to stay open, you see. Later on those same 'visionaries' decided on a new Casino complex that's been hemorrhaging money (and rain water) ever since.

When the majority led by Mayor Pam Triolo took the lead to fix all this the 'visionaries' then told the public the pool had to open at any cost. Question: If the pool was such a precious amenity in their minds why did they close it in 2010? Answer: They don't care about the pool one bit. It's the political "gotcha" and opportunism that's important to them.

Image from the file, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

Oh, and then there's this:

Look in the right-hand column for this "check". How many potholes could all this money have fixed?