Political news from Greenacres!

First posted 1½ years ago do your remember the blog post asking, “What happened to the news in the Post about code and law enforcement in Greenacres.” What happened is the Post began ignoring most political and policy news in Greenacres and began to solely focus on just the City of Lake Worth. Why? That has never been explained. But guess what!

UPDATE: There was political news Saturday in The Palm Beach Post about Greenacres!

But the news was wrong.

The Post reported there were four (4) questions on March 13th ballot in the fine city of Greenacres. There are actually six (6) questions on the ballot. This deserved a correction yesterday in the Sunday paper but of course that did not happen.

But it gets worse! The Post missed two candidate races too!

To read the article in the Post titled, “On the March 13 ballot in Palm Beach County” click on this link.

To see all six questions on the March 13th ballot in Greenacres it’s actually very easy. First click on this link and go searching around the Greenacres’ website yourself to download the ballot. Why not just post the link right here right now? The answer is because I would like to encourage everyone to learn a little bit more about that wonderful city to the west of our City of Lake Worth.

Now let’s get back to, “Miss any news in Post about code or law enforcement in Greenacres?”

Learn more about this quote later in this blog post:

“We want to try to clean everything up like they’re doing in Lake Worth.”
—Quote in The Palm Beach Post, May 4th, 2016.

If you are a resident of the fine city of Greenacres, below you’ll find information on how to locate and try to contact your former beat reporter. For example, there hasn’t been any news in the print edition about the switch to PBSO in well over two years, hardly any news about the upcoming elections next March, or any news at all about what is happening at the Greenacres Town Council.

Click on map of Central Palm Beach County:

By the way, when was the last time you read anything in the Post about code or law enforcement in the Village of Palm Springs? Lake Clarke Shores? Great Walled City of Atlantis?

About time for an update from your former Post beat reporter? Remember the news about “Blight, eyesores addressed at special Greenacres workshop”? The article (see excerpts below) surprised a lot of people in 2016 about the City of Greenacres and code enforcement. We don’t get much news from Greenacres any more even though that city faces many of the same issues our City of Lake Worth does.

Ever since the Post began publishing their Lake Worth Very Very Special Monday Cursory Print Edition (LWVVSMCPE; see image below) much of the local news outside the City of Lake Worth in Central Palm Beach County is going unreported in the print edition.

 How many articles have been written to date about Code Enforcement in our City of Lake Worth? A lot.

 How much news about code in Greenacres? None since May of 2016. Greenacres switched over to PBSO as well: How many news articles have
you read about that?

Maybe a good place to start would be an update from the Post about this situation back in 2016, over two years ago:

GREENACRES — It’s no secret the Greenacres City Council has been splintered for some time. But for 90 minutes, at a special workshop Monday, the council, along with other city officials, played nice to talk about issues of blight and neglect in the city’s original section.

Below are more interesting quotes from that 2016 article:

“We want to try to clean everything up like they’re doing in Lake Worth.”
—Quote. Greenacres Deputy Mayor Jonathan Pearce [now former Mayor Pearce; Joel Flores is the mayor now].

And there’s more. . .

     “District I Councilwoman Lisa Rivera led the wide-ranging meeting, which covered everything from trash inside newspaper vending machines to unsightly medians along Lake Worth Road to pitch black streets on Haverhill Road.
     Several city department heads and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies were on hand to answer questions from Rivera on why her district looks the way it looks.”

and lastly. . .

     “Rivera is also concerned that many of the businesses in her district, which runs from the L-10 Canal south to the L-15 Canal, and from Military Trail west to South 57th Avenue, look like they should be in a flea market, with their garish colors and tacky banner signs.
     ‘It looks horrid,’ Rivera said.”

So. Do you live in Greenacres? Hoping to get more of your community and city news into the print edition at the Post? Here is how you contact your former beat reporter:

• Email: kthompson@pbpost.com
• 561-820-4573

“IN FOCUS” where? LAKE WORTH?
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Remember this “IN FOCUS: LAKE WORTH”?
This RaceTrac isn’t in Lake Worth. It’s
located in Palm Springs.

“I hang out at RaceTrac a lot because it’s a good, clean, and inviting place to plug in my laptop when I’m working in and around Lake Worth, [emphasis added] something I’m now doing four days a week — a new mandate from our editors to fully embed ourselves in the communities we cover.”

“. . . fully embed ourselves in the communities we cover.”? If you live in Greenacres and are scratching your head right about now, well, join the club.

So. How much has changed in Greenacres
since 2016?

A whole lot and hope to see more news about Greenacres in the print edition some time soon about code enforcement, and PBSO, as well as what’s going on with politics in your fine city.