Check back later today or tomorrow
morning for the answer.
To learn more about the nearly two-year news blackout at the Post vis-à-vis the Blueway Trail project use this link. It’s hard to believe, but one has to go all the way back to December 2015, in an article by reporter Eliot Kleinberg, one that chronicles and provides in-depth news reporting about this project.
And that’s the problem with the article that appeared in the Post print edition yesterday: It’s old news to begin with; the event reported happened almost a week prior, on Tuesday, October 3rd.
What’s being missed here is all the hard work by Commissioner Omari Hardy paid off. Several times Hardy asked for a resolution of support for the Blueway Trail project to be placed on the Commission agenda and he finally had enough of the delays on August 15th. The next regular meeting was on September 19th, right after Hurricane Irma, so the resolution Hardy wanted was on the October 3rd Commission agenda.
And besides, “Resolution 50-2017 Supporting the C-51 Boat Lift” passed unanimously so it’s over and done with. And did you know, on the very same night the City of Lake Worth passed a resolution of support for the Blueway Trail, the City of Boynton Beach did so as well, unanimously. That wasn’t reported in yesterday’s Post article. Boynton Beach became the 16th “Resolution of Support” for this exciting regional project in Central Palm Beach County.
And in context of recent news reports in the Sun Sentinel by reporter Brooke Baininger and by Alanna Quillen at WPTV, the article in the Post offers little in the way of more information about the actual Blueway Trail project, both current events and past history explaining how we got to this point.
Focusing on just one aspect, a testy exchange between Commissioner Omari Hardy and Mayor Pam Triolo may sell a few more newspapers but doesn’t provide information or the context the public needs to stay informed like the news reports in the Sun Sentinel and NBC5/WPTV did.
And that’s the problem with the article that appeared in the Post print edition yesterday: It’s old news to begin with; the event reported happened almost a week prior, on Tuesday, October 3rd.
What’s being missed here is all the hard work by Commissioner Omari Hardy paid off. Several times Hardy asked for a resolution of support for the Blueway Trail project to be placed on the Commission agenda and he finally had enough of the delays on August 15th. The next regular meeting was on September 19th, right after Hurricane Irma, so the resolution Hardy wanted was on the October 3rd Commission agenda.
And besides, “Resolution 50-2017 Supporting the C-51 Boat Lift” passed unanimously so it’s over and done with. And did you know, on the very same night the City of Lake Worth passed a resolution of support for the Blueway Trail, the City of Boynton Beach did so as well, unanimously. That wasn’t reported in yesterday’s Post article. Boynton Beach became the 16th “Resolution of Support” for this exciting regional project in Central Palm Beach County.
And in context of recent news reports in the Sun Sentinel by reporter Brooke Baininger and by Alanna Quillen at WPTV, the article in the Post offers little in the way of more information about the actual Blueway Trail project, both current events and past history explaining how we got to this point.
Focusing on just one aspect, a testy exchange between Commissioner Omari Hardy and Mayor Pam Triolo may sell a few more newspapers but doesn’t provide information or the context the public needs to stay informed like the news reports in the Sun Sentinel and NBC5/WPTV did.
But one thing is without doubt:
Commissioners Andy Amoroso, Herman Robinson, and especially so of Commissioner Omari Hardy, they are the ones providing the leadership for the Blueway Trail in the City of Lake Worth.A photo taken last December of “The Grinch” with
then-citizens Messrs. Herman C. Robinson (on left)
and Omari Hardy (right):
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| Also of note, prior to being elected last March, then-citizen Omari Hardy made his support of Blueway Trail very clear and was attending meetings to learn more about this project at SFWMD headquarters* and other venues as well. |
*SFWMD = South Florida Water Management District; headquarters located at 3301 Gun Club Rd. in West Palm Beach.
![Dr. W. H. Cotton’s ode: “Oh, My Lake Worth, Florida!” [circa 1920].](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhHyCn84ZIQ/WezjlEL-0tI/AAAAAAAAPZ4/CzkhriK6zpEJJ3d9Je1495d49gIhnMlxACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/LakeWorthPioneers.JPG)
