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 From The Palm Beach Post’s award-winning Sally Swartz: In a small county like Martin, people keep tabs on each other. So it’s no shock that hours after Martin Commissioner Patrick Hayes exchanged toasts and high-fives with the Extreme Water Sports Park’s pitchman Don Cuozzo and applicant Marcel Mullet’s mother, Justine Simoni, at a Stuart tavern, the news was out in e-mails and blogs. … Click here to read more  Former Stuart News business editor, Jim Turner, now reporting for The Sunshine State News, gives details of the gaming lobby, and perspective on Florida’s gambling habits. … Click here to read more  The New York Post tells us: Only in Florida — and in the fiction of its native son Carl Hiaasen — does a dead iguana fall from a palm tree and kill somebody. “True story,” swears Hiaasen, whose new YA novel, “Chomp,” opens just that way. “We had a big freeze, and all these iguanas were falling out of trees. I thought, some day I’ll use this.” … Click here to read more  Stuart News columnist Eve Samples interviews Jupiter Island resident John Payson, conservationist and famed art dealer, who has little respect or sympathy left for Martin County Commissioner Patrick Hayes, who cast one of three votes in support of the Extreme Sports park. The park is planned for 111 acres on Bridge Road between I-95 and Florida’s Turnpike — what is now a largely agricultural parcel. … Click here to read more  The Palm Beach Post reports that Florida Power & Light Co.’s Unit 1 nuclear reactor at its St. Lucie plant has been placed under increased oversight because of the number and type of unplanned reactor shutdowns at the plant, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday. … Click here to read more  Up to 210 acres at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in southern Martin County will be set on fire tomorrow, weather permitting. … Click here to read more  A Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, and to all of us who gave moms reasons to celebrate today. … Click here to read more  From the Los Angeles Times: In Florida, many economically sensitive swing voters, the sort who decide close elections, haven’t discerned progress in their lives over the last four years. … Click here to read more  From The Palm Beach Post’s award-winning blogger Sally Swartz: “Given the grip developers have on Martin County Commission’s majority, Tuesday’s 3-2 vote to approve growth plan changes allowing an extreme water sports park west of Hobe Sound is not unexpected.” For video of the meeting and commentary: … Click here to read more  Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory opens up a can of worms, and found “very friendly skies for insurance execs.” And Stuart is one of the popular destinations for those insurance company-owned corporate jets, Dassault Falcons. … Click here to read more  A 12-hour Board of County Commissioners meeting today was capped by Martin County Commissioners Hayes, Ciampi and Smith voting to support the Extreme Sports Water Ski Park, Hotel and RV Park in Hobe Sound, proposed by developer Marcel Mullet and his wife, Jennifer. … Click here to read more |
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