Classic photoshop by the inimitable Tom McGow. |
"Manny has to get used to living in a ghetto until things pick up around here.”
—Then Vice-Mayor JoAnn Golden as quoted by Tom McGow on September 2, 2009.
Classic photoshop by the inimitable Tom McGow. |
They say three times is a charm. But in the case of Chabad of East Boca Raton, it was actually more.
After four hours of lengthy discussion, City Council members late July 28 voted 5-0 in favor of the ambitious beachside orthodox synagogue. [emphasis added] The project was up for reconsideration because two appeals challenging the Planning and Zoning Board’s site plan approval had been filed by unhappy neighborhood groups.
“We are very appreciative and very elated that the Council affirmed its previous approval. We look forward to moving forward from here,” said a smiling Rabbi Ruvi New, as he clasped hands with joyous congregants.
Council members voted to affirm the previously approved site plan with a modification to ensure the project has adequate handicap parking. The synagogue is planned for 770 E. Palmetto Park Road.
“In Jewish law, when something occurs three times it sets a precedent,” New said. “We were confident that the precedent would stand.”
“Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, and the Apocalypse; for the first 14 years of my life, I thought this was normal.”If anyone has more information they would like to share please comment on this post or email me.
Destiny Thomas the daughter of Evangelical Fundamentalists escaped child abuse, neglect and the rise of a Religious Cult. In this kind of belief system, women are treated like second-class citizens. Bound by an unhealthy allegiance and controlled by the exclusion of education, “I was powerless”.
During my 25 years of life, I’ve had the privilege to attend 5 years of school; 4 years of High School and 10 months of training at a boutique film school. With this limited education, dozens of odd-jobs, hours of self study and the burning need for redemption, I went on to Write and Direct the International Award Winning Short: MY CENTER WILL NOT HOLD.
A friend of mine brought to my attention your blog post about the Gray Mockingbird Community Garden being a community “eyesore”. I thank you for the feedback of the garden…and I am NOT being sarcastic when I say that. I accept REAL feedback and work so that we may be a light for the city of Lake Worth. Part of my vision is that more people are able to work with each other and accept feedback. Accept feedback and give feedback to hold each other at higher standards. We will find even our best can get better.
Since the picture was taken, half of the back garden area has been weeded by volunteers from the YMCA. The cardboard was placed by 4 children and one of the children’s mother. Then the Mission Life group, working through Palm Beach Atlantic University covered the cardboard (which is the walkways) with mulch and placed black plastic in the growing areas. Students from FAU came out last week to learn about sustainability while at the same time the Mission Life group dug a trench for new irrigation.
If you would like to post all or part of this letter in response to your blogpost, be my guest. I would at the same time like to post it on some of the social media pages so that people can learn by example that FEEDBACK is NOT a bad thing. Feedback allows us all to make our best even better!The GMCC is located on the grounds of the Scottish Rite Masonic Center at 2000 North 'D' St in Lake Worth; you'll see a very large, white structure surrounded by a high fence and gates. Enter through the west gate (the gate on 'D' St). Here is the GMCC Facebook page. If you can spare the time give Brian a call to see how you can help out.
I would like to follow up this letter with a telephone call. My number is 561.246.0148 Thank You
Sincerely,
Brian Kirsch
We [unidentified] all worked VERY HARD and spent a lot of time and money to meet all of the requirements required by zoning and code to open our establishments. I can only say that it is this level of apathy by our government officials that has caused businesses. . .to go out of business while the total kissing butt to Hudson Holdings and bullying of owners of empty buildings on Lake and Lucerne to reduce the value of their rents just to get any tenants in them has made us think long and hard to come to the conclusion that the only cure for this apathetic approach to government is to give a new group a chance in this upcoming election. We also feel the need to get the Lake Worth Tribune and Margaret Menge back to push for accountability. and fairness.
I don't think you can imagine the level of frustration that we have.... and letting this new group operate at The Bamboo Room without boundaries or following the rules is inexcusable and a huge sign of disrespect to us.The number of lies, half-truths, and distortions is something to behold. This is demonstrated no better when the writer mentions Margaret Menge, "accountability", and "fairness" in the same sentence. Menge's history in Lake Worth is anything but fair and accountable.
"Keep Out" of Lake Worth. Very charming, isn't it? |
Here is the official City of Lake Worth icon. |
Notice the NO PARKING ANY TIME sign immediately next to the truck's tailgate. |
Volunteers MaryAnn Hadman and Teri Abrams, Shannon Hawkins of Quantum Foundation, Meals on Wheels client Bill Slagle, and Nate Cousineau and Kerry Jamieson, both of the Quantum Foundation. |
Beginning at 6 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8 until 11 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) will close the railroad crossing located on SR802/Lucerne Avenue, (between F and G streets), weather permitting.For questions contact Maurice Borrows at 954-777-4379, or Marco Incer at 954-677-7899.
During this time, all traffic will be detoured away from the Lucerne Avenue crossing and directed to follow signs to alternate local streets.
This detour is being established to allow workers to perform necessary repairs to the FEC Railway crossing surface. Workers will remove and replace concrete crossing panels and track panel, and repave the crossing surface to improve ride quality.
High-end Italian food. Paradiso serves salads, pasta, risotto, fish, steak and duck. We visited for lunch, when the highest-priced entrée on the menu is $21. Tasty, high-quality food, including homemade pasta, is served at Lake Worth’s Paradiso Restaurant.[and. . .]
Our entrees were quite good, but the appetizers were off the chart. The insalata de beitola ($10), with golden beets, strips of apple, blue cheese and macadamia nuts, was amazing. The gazpacho ($6) was salsa-like in its thickness. The organic chicken ($15) and mushroom risotto ($18) were tasty and expertly prepared, but the opening act was the highlight of this meal.And here is a special at Paradiso's reported by Laura Lordi!
After months of bending over backwards to explain why a subreddit dedicated to violent hate speech against black people was OK, Reddit’s new CEO [Steve Huffman] announced today that /r/CoonTown is no more.
Today we [Reddit] removed communities dedicated to animated [child pornography] and a handful of other communities that violate the spirit of the policy by making Reddit worse for everyone else: /r/CoonTown, /r/WatchNiggersDie, /r/bestofcoontown, /r/koontown, /r/CoonTownMods, /r/CoonTownMeta.Only time will tell if this will affect the blog content by The Other Blogger (TOB).
The "community garden" has become a community "eyesore". |
Note the meeting is tonight at the library in Palm Beach Gardens. |
The "Briger Forest" is now called the Alton Tract. |
The Federal Railroad Administration has concluded All Aboard Florida’s express passenger rail project will have no adverse impacts on communities from Miami to Orlando if increased safety efforts and noise reduction plans are completed.When is the Post going to get stock photos of passenger trains from All Aboard Florida? For months they've been using pictures of freight trains in articles about passenger rail:
The highly anticipated final environmental impact statement was quietly posted to the FRA website at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in stark contrast to the September draft report that was publicly announced in a news release.
At more than 600 pages long, it comes on the eve of the crucial vote by the Florida Development Finance Corp. on whether to approve $1.75 billion in tax exempt bonds to pay for All Aboard Florida’s ambitious plan to run 32 trains per day on the Florida East Coast Railway tracks.
Feds release final report on All Aboard Florida http://t.co/qxqIPQeTpq pic.twitter.com/q2UXuE9ySL
— The Palm Beach Post (@pbpost) August 4, 2015
The Australian government has announced plans to cull up to 2 million feral cats by 2020 in a bid to preserve dozens of native species that authorities claim face extinction because of the cats' predatory behavior.[and. . .]
Speaking to a national radio station, Gregory Andrews, the country's first threatened-species Commissioner, said Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt "is declaring war on feral cats, and he's asked me to take charge of that programme."
Hunt unveiled the five-year plan at a Melbourne zoo on Thursday, vowing to protect Australia's native mammal and bird populations.
"We are drawing a line in the sand today which says, 'On our watch, in our time, no more species extinction,' " [emphasis added] Hunt said.
This is hardly the first time the scourge of feral cats has made national headlines in this part of the world. In 2013, a prominent economist turned environmental activist in New Zealand called for the wholesale eradication of the country's cats, deeming them "natural born killers."
Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell fought valiantly against the Urban Chicken and won. |
Maier (pictured above) founded the Lake Worth Chickens Facebook page. |
Marc Tancer will be at Brogues tonight at 7:00. |
#UPDATE @PBCountySheriff says Sheriff Rick Bradshaw will speak to media soon. @WPBF25News #LakeWorth pic.twitter.com/hkoUS1EiMy
— Stephanie Berzinski (@wpbf_stephanie) July 30, 2015
#Update @PBCountySheriff Rick Bradshaw just arrived on deputy-involved shooting scene #LakeWorth pic.twitter.com/LqNUBQ62DY
— Stephanie Berzinski (@wpbf_stephanie) July 30, 2015
#breaking large scene in #LakeWorth deputy involved shooting; suspect in critical; mobile command just arrived pic.twitter.com/KtAZd39utX
— Stephanie Berzinski (@wpbf_stephanie) July 30, 2015
There are other Tweets using the #LakeWorth hashtag that serve only to confuse the public should they happen on this page. My question is this: why isn't the City of Lake Worth correcting this misinformation? Why aren't they sending out press releases or calling news directors to get this kind of misreporting corrected?A story Monday [Link no longer works] in the Boston Phoenix by Mark Jurkowitz shined some light on the issue. It's the tale of a reporter named Margaret Menge, who had contributed to U.S. News & World Report, the New York Press, and the New York Observer, and who took a job a few months ago at the Union Leader, in Manchester, New Hampshire. Eight weeks later, she was asked to resign. She told Jurkowitz that the managing editor for news told her that she came to the paper "with a New York attitude. We do community journalism here."
Spending some time at a small town media outlet might, if nothing else, temper in an ambitious reporter some of the condescension that Rosen [New York University Associate Professor of Journalism Jay Rosen] says infects the cosmopolitan media. "Elite journalists want to believe that their counterparts in Des Moines or Oxford, Ohio are under pressure to print good news," he says. But Rosen says it's more complicated than that. He dismisses such an attitude as the "sentimental, self-flattering view of the elite."Consider this synopsis of Margaret Menge's career in "community journalism":
"In somewhere like Birmingham or whatever it's hard to think of yourself as not a part of the community," he says. "When you are in that situation the journalism you do and can do and want to do is just different. And to describe that as good news versus bad news or boosterism versus truthtelling is just a load of crap."
“If you want more of a definition, I’m afraid it’s like when someone asked Louie Armstrong for a definition of jazz. The great Satchmo is reputed to have replied something like this: ‘Man, if you have to ask, it won’t do me any good to try to explain.’ You know community journalism when you see it; it is the heartbeat of American journalism, journalism in its natural state.” –Jock LautererNow come to the line I don't want to cross but will, reluctantly. There's no better way to prove Margaret Menge is NOT a 'community journalist', nor a caring journalist and nor a caring resident in our City of Lake Worth: I'm referring to the terribly sad incident that happened to a young lady on Tuesday, March 10th.
Menge published this picture of the deceased woman holding her child on the front page of here tabloid. I obscured the names and faces. |
"I [Margaret Menge] need something that says what happened, to whom, where, when. . . This cannot be withheld under Chapter 119 F.S. Not in any other state, either."While the family was still grieving their loss, Ms. Menge was trolling for a story. Is this what you call "community journalism" or a fascination with the macabre?
The group said its membership includes residents from across South Florida, including several business owners and community leaders from Palm Beach County.
Palm Beach County members include: Glenn Gromann, business owner and real estate professional in Boca Raton; Sandie Foland, owner of Barron Sign & Manufacturing located in Riviera Beach; Brock Rosayn; President of Metro Taxi of Palm Beach County in Delray Beach; and Bruce Alger Bastian, father of two and activist for Walkable Communities Delray Beach.
“A majority of residents have long supported this project, and this coalition is an opportunity to publicly demonstrate to elected leaders that we want All Aboard Florida,” Rosayn said. “I’m looking forward to All Aboard Florida as it will bring in more tourists to our area, which will benefit my business.”
Palm Beach County Judge Donald W. Hafele appointed Glickstein as part of an agreement among several parties to resolve an internal ownership dispute that had raged since last fall. The appointment slammed the brakes on multiple legal actions filed at the county courthouse involving key Palm House players.The stalling of this project pleased no one in Palm Beach and it has taken action by the courts to resolve it. At least now there is a way forward, but this is still going to be a challenging project to sort out and complete to everyone's satisfaction.
Glickstein will work to “secure, improve, repair, manage and oversee completion of construction” and improvements at the property, which has been under renovation for nearly a decade, according to Hafele’s order.
In addition to generating lawsuits and construction liens, the Palm House project at 160 Royal Palm Way is the target of a foreclosure action brought by its primary mortgage lender. The Palm House also has racked up more than $1.7 million in fines issued by the town for construction delays and non-approved projects at the site.