Something good is growing in Fort Lauderdale! Sometimes good things happen in Fort Lauderdale, not because of local government, but in spite of it. In the Northwest part of the City, a collaborative effort is underway between the residents there, a local non-profit organization known as “Step Up”, the Carlisle Development Group, and leaders from [...]
Fort Lauderdale’s Spending Addiction and High City Employee Salaries Last year, in the middle of a horrible economy, City Manager George Gretsas grew the City’s budget from $600M to $605M. He called it a “zero-based” budget, when everyone at City Hall (including Mayor Jack Seiler) knew that description was a complete fabrication. This year, City [...]
Fort Lauderdale saw two firsts this last weekend. The one most people heard about was the arrival of the largest cruise ship ever built (Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas”), arriving at its new home port here in Fort Lauderdale for the first time. Equally as exciting was the public arrival here (at the Riverside [...]
A Sad Day For Fort Lauderdale Last night, our Commission (after considerable squirming around in their chairs), voted 3-2 to renew the contract with Florida Power & Light for another 30 years. It’s a shame that certain Commissioners and the Mayor feel that the interests of their friends at FPL outweigh the interests of Fort [...]
