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COLUMN: Plant City pauses during COVID-19 pandemic
Yes, coronavirus is stretching the social and financial fibers of our lives, but efforts are being made from all directions to strengthen those fibers.
Continue ReadingLetter to the Editor: WLCA’s faux (fake) ‘polls/surveys’
Walden Lake resident Don Marshall believes the latest Walden Lake development survey is intentionally misleading.
Continue ReadingOpinion: Tort reform
When I hear people speak of tort reform, I wish them well. It is one of those areas of debate where giant swaths of time and mental energy can be wasted because any sweeping legislative tort reform in the U.S.A. is essentially an impossibility. This is due in part to how a debate-killing slice of […]
Continue ReadingOpinion: Passing the torch to a new generation of leaders
“Let the word go forth from this time and place…that the torch has been passed to a new generation… proud of our heritage…” With these words, newly elected President John Kennedy proclaimed in his January 20, 1961 inaugural address that a new generation of Americans had assumed the mantle of leadership. As I sat in […]
Continue ReadingCity welcomes vets home with yellow ribbons and Strawberry Grounds event
Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of yellow ribbons around Plant City festooned on trees, light posts and the doors of businesses during the week before Veterans Day. Yellow ribbons are a traditional way of welcoming veterans home and supporting them, and welcoming and honoring veterans is exactly why the Elks Lodge, […]
Continue ReadingLetter to the Editor: WLCA must stand strong again
Dear Walden Lake Neighbors, The failure of the Walden Lake Country Club will once again test the resolve of our homeowners’ association, the WLCA. Five years ago, then-club owner Visions Golf applied for rezoning of the property for residential development. Visions’ application was abandoned following a July 2016 planning board hearing at which I joined […]
Continue ReadingOpinion: Making Plant City’s downtown like Lakeland
I’ve been asked a few times, “What can Plant City do to move our downtown towards being more like Lakeland’s?” Since I grew up in Lakeland and was witness to its decline, stagnation and eventual revival, and since I have been in our business offices in downtown Plant City since 1986, I felt I should […]
Continue ReadingDoctor’s Note: “Do You Hear That?”
The most common misconception about tinnitus is that people believe it’s a condition all on its own, when in fact, it’s actually a symptom that could be related to an array of underlying health issues.
Continue ReadingOpinion: Main Street downtown development plan keeps Plant City on the move
Everywhere you look, the City of Plant City and its economic development partners are on the move. Main Street Plant City is providing the legs for the city’s latest project, our downtown development plan. “Timing is everything,” said Mayor Rick Lott at Main Street’s last regular monthly “Topics on Tap” meeting, attended by 70 or […]
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