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Paul Revere emailed yesterday, regarding the Key West Citizen guest columnist policy part of yesterday’s the beathings will continue in Key West, until morale improves … post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
Subject: ” Sloan, The Citizen does not publish guest columns. In addition, as early voting is now underway, we are not printing letters regarding items on the ballot. Thank you, Kay ” [Kay Harris, Editor, Key West Citizen, keysnews.com]
That’s not journalism in the public interest , a healthy debate is needed and of course there’s so much more info needed also. Will that come as a last minute press release from the PAC or a wonderful last minute revelation by Comm Weekly above the fold? But will the Citizen still suck up some PAC advertising anyway?
I replied to Mr. Revere:
You might be amused by Kay Harris’ reply to me, and my replies to her, after I had published today’s post, to which you responded. I imagine all of that will be part of tomorrow’s ravings at goodmorningkeywest.com.
Mr. Revere wrote back:
Maybe the Citizen will write another editorial contradicting one of the others it’s already published? Anybody’s guess , but they and the pro Peary Court PAC do not have the data and facts needed and that’s the main problem. I’m not sure that the City really does either or they’re spinning them to make this a “good deal “. It’s absurd, and so poorly thought out- or just another back room deal.
So, how to proceed from there today?
Here is a replay of Kay Harris’ and my email in yesterday’s the beatings will continue in Key West, until morale improves … post at goodmorningkeywest.com. If you already read that post, scroll down to Kay’s later email saying I had threatened her and violated her privacy:
Sloan Bashinsky
To: editor@keysnews.com;
Tue 3/8/2016 6:59 AM
Subject: guest column – school district tax referendum
Here is the school district tax referendum wording:
RENEW FLEXIBLE FUNDING FOR
MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS:
The District’s objective is to continue to make
available a portion of the existing capital ad
valorem tax levy for operations – such as
teachers, school nurses and classroom
materials. The District intends to continue its
reduced millage for capital projects, and
continue to make available the equivalent
amount for operations.
Shall the district continue to enact a yearly ad
valorem tax of .5 mill, for four (4) years
beginning July 1, 2016, for operating
purposes?
When I ran for school board in 2012, I repeatedly said not passing this tax that year would be Armageddon for the school district.
I also repeatedly said the school board and school district administration is terminally dysfunctionally insane, and the only possible cures are either the state of Florida takes over the school district, or each school votes itself to be a charter school, and thus has its own individual school board, which does not answer to the county school board, while the county school board has to continue, by state law, funding said new charter schools.
I also repeatedly said the school district is teaching to standardized tests, and not what students need to learn; the school district views college prep curriculum as all that’s important, even though most keys high school students don’t enter college, and a large majority of those who do enter college drop out, and most of whose who do graduate from college can’t find work that pays them a living wage even on the mainland.
I repeatedly said the school district should put most emphasis on vocational training in high school, that all students should be able to touch type by the time they leave grammar school, that all students should be bilingual in English and Spanish by the time they leave grammar school; and I repeatedly said the school district is using the cookie cutter approach, trying to cram each student into the same mold, although no two students are alike, although no two students have the same aptitude, although each student has his/her own abilities which need to be met by the curriculum.
I repeatedly said the school district needs to centrally locate its administration in Marathon High School, which was way over-built under pressure from Marathon parents who wanted a high school as big as Key West High School. Centralized administration would be more efficient and economic.
I repeatedly said the School Board should sell off its Key West real estate, and the white elephant nursing home next to Marathon High School, which it bought with grandeur of making a killing in real estate. I flat opposed the school board giving the City of Key West Glenn Archer school. I flat opposed adding a grammar school to the new Horace O’Bryant school. I flat opposed busing Bahama Village grammar school students (predominantly black) around two grammar schools in Key West (predominantly white), to the grammar school on stock island.
I loudly and longly called for a full, in broad daylight investigation of the hazing of Key West High School student Matthew Gelleran, because he was gay, which led to his shooting himself to death with his father’s pistol, which one school board member, Robin Smith-Martin, blamed on his father having a pistol in the home, while all school board members, including Ed Davidson, as I recall, did nothing about the tragedy.
I saw the school district continue to stonewall Kathy Reitzel, who had blown the whistle on the Acevedos, and for that and for being the State Attorney’s star witness against the Acevedos, Reitzel was told by the school board to resign, or be fired, because she had waited too long to blow the whistle, school board member Andy Griffiths told me, guaranteeing there would be no future whistle-blowing in the school district, which is how the school board and the school district like it.
I watched the school board, in the wake of the Acevedo scandal, create its own appointed volunteer Audit & Finance Committee to make it look like the board was serious about changing school district money oversight; then I watched the school board ignore the Audit & Finance committee’s many efforts and recommendations to improve the school district’s financial operations.
I watched the school district repeatedly ignore requests for public records made by Dr. Larry Murray, who had been an outspoken member on the Audit & Finance Committee, until he was fired by the school board member who had appointed him, by not renewing the appointment. Then Larry ran for that now retired school board member’s seat on the board, and did not even make it into the runoff, even as he continued dogging the school district and the school board, and he continued not getting his public records requests honored, although state law requires such requests to be honored, and if a court has to force it, the requester’s attorney fees and court costs have to be paid by the school district. Ed Davidson won that school board seat in 2012, after moving from one part of Marathon to another, solely to be able to run for that school board seat.
The school board still does not let citizens who attend school board meetings speak to action items, but only allows citizens to speak once, for 3 minutes, during a school board meeting. I attended many school board meetings in 2011 and 2012, and spoke for 3 minutes, and it was obvious the board appreciated no citizen input.
After the Acevedo scandal, I watched the school board choose a new superintendent of schools, Mark Porter, who was clearly inferior to another candidate, Dr. Ed Shine. Porter had been fired by his school district in Minnesota. He was out of a job. Shine had served with distinction as superintendent of schools, and was loved by students, in two different New York state school districts. Dr. Shine made our school board members look like rank amateurs in education, and illiterate, and immature as adults during the public part of his vetting by the school board members at Marathon High School.
I have seen nothing change for the better in our school district since 2012. Most of our students would be better served by being home schooled, or by going to work in some trade and being taught how to make a living wage somewhere, if not in the Florida Keys.
So, guess what? I voted NO yesterday on extending the school board ad valorem tax for operations.
Sloan Bashinsky
P.O. Box 2861
Key West 33045
(305) 407-4285
Kay Harris <kharris@keysnews.com>
Reply To: Sloan Bashinsky’ <sloanbashinsky@outlook.com>;
Tue 3/8/2016 10:46 AM
Sloan, The Citizen does not publish guest columns. In addition, as early voting is now underway, we are not printing letters regarding items on the ballot. Thank you, Kay
Sloan Bashinsky
Reply To: kharris@keysnews.com;
Tue 3/8/2016 6:50 PM
Kay, you publish long letters to the editor from Ed Swift, which are guest columns.
Voting has been underway for some time, and you have been publishing letters (Peary Court referendum) and Citizen editorials.
Sloan
Sloan Bashinsky
Reply today To: kharris@keysnews.com;
Wed 3/9/2016 8:00 AM
Morning, Kay –
There is a letter to the editor in today’s Citizen, advising voters why they should not vote YES on the Peary Court referendums.
Perhaps I was remiss describing what I sent to you as a “column”. Perhaps I should have called it a “guest editorial”. Or, simply a letter to the editor.
Go back and look at the times the Citizen has let Ed Swift run way, way over your 350 word limit, for letters to the editor.
I have not submitted anything to the Citizen in a very long time.
What I sent to you is something the public needs to be reminded, or learn or the very first time, from someone who was there, eye and ear witness, who does not work for the school district, or for the Citizen, or have kids in local schools.
I don’t expect you to change your mind. I will publish our email exchange in today’s post at goodmorningkewyest.com, and perhaps in other ways.
Sincerely,
Sloan Bashinsky
Key West
Kay Harris’ email that I threatened her and violated her privacy:
Kay Harris <kharris@keysnews.com>
Reply To: ‘Sloan Bashinsky’ <sloanbashinsky@outlook.com>;
Wed 3/9/2016 10:54 AM
No there is not a letter to the editor today encouraging voters to vote yes. There is however a letter to the editor concerning the repercussions of the purchase to the housing market. In addition, you are being held to the same rules as everyone else.
I am disappointed that you feel the need to threaten me. Our communication is private. If you choose to publish it, it is without my permission.
.
Sloan Bashinsky
Reply To: kharris@keysnews.com;
Wed 3/9/2016 12:48 PM
Er, Kay –
Here is what I wrote to you this morning about the Peary Court referendum letter to the editor in today’s Citizen, I added the underscoring:
“There is a letter to the editor in today’s Citizen, advising voters why they should not vote YES on the Peary Court referendums.”
The Citizen reader’s letter to the editor was his attempt to persuade the voters not to vote YES for the two Peary Court referendums.
The reason I brought that letter to the editor to your attention today was you wrote to me yesterday, I underscore your contradiction of yourself:
“Sloan, The Citizen does not publish guest columns. In addition, as early voting is now underway, we are not printing letters regarding items on the ballot. Thank you, Kay.”
Don’t know where you get I threatened you, Kay. I simply told you what I was going to do with our email, which is what I did.
Don’t see why you thought our email was private. You are editor of the Florida Keys’ chief mainstream newspaper, and you wrote something to me about your publishing policy, which clearly was not true: “:as early voting is now underway, we are not printing letters regarding items on the ballot.”
That in and of itself is news.
As was my letter to the editor, which I sent to the email address – editor@keysnews.com – provided in the opinion and letters to the editor page of every Citizen.
What you declined to publish, for any reason, on such an important local topic, is news.
As is news, that you give Ed Swift a license, or franchise, or whatever you wish to call it, free space in the Citizen when he sends in a l-o-n-g sermon on what is his view of something, which generally tends to have a subtext, which translates into money going into or leaving his pocketbook.
I called a member of your editorial board this morning, and told him to check out my goodmorningkeywest.com post today, in case he wanted to say something to you about it. He said you are a good girl. I said, read today’s post and see if you still think that. Haven’t heard back on that yet.
Once upon a time, Tom Tuell, who was editor of the Citizen, tried to persuade me, via emails, that Sandy Downs, who had run for sheriff down here, was insane because one of her sons had been electrocuted while on a tree job in Key West, due to electric wires running through a tree on city right of way land. Sandy and her husband owned the tree company doing that job. After reading my and Tom’s emails about that at goodmorningkeywest.com, Sandy told me to ask Tom if he was insane because he had run over and killed a homeless person on Stock Island? Tom wrote back to me never to contact him again.
The timing was interesting, indeed.
Earlier that very week, Mark Howell, Solares Hill’s editor, had told me his review of my novel, HEAVY WAIT, A Strange Tale, which he had really enjoyed, would run in that Sunday’s Solares Hill. Sunday came, no review. I emailed Mark. He said, well, er, since I was running for county commission, “we” had decided it wouldn’t be fair to the other candidates if the review ran before the election. But after the election, the review could be run. After the election, I saw Mark at a Key West Business Guild Luncheon and asked him if the review could now be run? Well, er, ah, that review never would be run. Some time later, I emailed Mark asking if he could email me the text of his review, I was interested in seeing it. No reply from Mark, who had often told me he read goodmorningkeywest.com, and his wife read me daily. The year I ran for school board, Mark told me at a Hometown PAC call to candidates, that I was the person to read, to learn about school district issues.
Some time passed. The Citizen wrote something really weird about something, I recall not what right now. I tore it up at goodmorningkeywest.com. Your boss, Paul Clarin, asked my friend on your editorial board to talk to me about not using Citizen articles in my posts at goodmorningkeywest.com any more, it was copyright infringement. I told my friend, okay, I would stop doing that, but to tell Paul for me that I had been doing it for years without any complaint from the Citizen, and what Paul was doing was retaliation for what I had published about the Citizen, and it was chicken shit. Even so, I stopped using Citizen articles as news items themselves, as I had said I would.
After a while, Rick Boettger emailed me that he had legal-researched it and he was about positive I could make fair comment in Citizen articles reproduced at goodmorningkeywest.com, if I credited the Citizen with the article, which I had been doing all along. I published Rick’s email in a post wherein I resumed using Citizen articles, editorials and letters to the editor as news, since the Citizen was a “public figure” with a lot of sway down here.
But that’s probably not what’s going on here. What’s probably going on here, based on the glaring contradiction in your emails to me, Kay, is you, at least, and perhaps your boss, Paul Clarin, don’t want your readers to see what I wrote about our school district, even though every bit of what I wrote is true, ugly as it surely is.
FYI, what I sent to you yesterday to publish is, verbatim, in today’s edition of the Coconut Telegraph at bigpinekey.com.
I will publish this latest email between us tomorrow, and what led up to it.
Meanwhile, if you want to take a ride you probably never took before, get a copy of HEAVY WAIT: A Strange Tale, and read about an entirely different way of living. Former Monroe County Mayor Shirley Freeman told me she could not put it down, she loved it. Sandy Downs told me the same some years prior, and that she had sent it to her father living in rural Ohio, who had loved it. Maybe after reading it, you will review it for your readers. I’m a Key West resident. I have written and published a lot of books, but HEAVY WAIT is the only one still in print. You can get it at amazon.com, in trade paper back or kindle, and at amazon.com.es in Spanish. The county library system has a copies, also.
Around dawn today, Sandy came to me in a dream, smiling big about a new house with quite a few people in it, sort of like a school, actually, which I could rent for $35 dollars a day, if I wished. 3 is my spirit code for the Holy Spirit, 5 is my spirit code for the feminine. I thought when I turned in last night that I might publish your and my email yesterday in today’s post at goodmorningkeywest.com.
HEAVY WAIT is about the Holy Spirit and the feminine, and their ways, which are not familiar to most people. Might be I didn’t use their names even once in the novel, which fell out of me in Helen, Georgia, like it was being dictated, after I had dreamt of it sleeping in doorway next to the bookstore on Fleming Street, in Key West, without understanding what I had dreamt until I was in Helen two days later, where I did not even know I was going when I had the dream.
Bon appetit,
Sloan Bashinsky
Sloan Bashinsky
Reply To: kharris@keysnews.com;
Wed 3/9/2016 3:18 PM
P.S. Here’s my view of the Peary Court referendum, which the Citizen endorsed in an editorial a couple of weeks ago, despite its position for some time now that it does not endorse candidates for public office, which I may have had a hand in coming about, because I kept after the Citizen for endorsing candidates, and then not going after them good and proper after they got elected and didn’t turn out so swell as elected officials. Same change happened at Hometown PAC!, after I kept getting onto them for the same reason.
I’m submitting this below as a letter to the editor, explaining to the public what the Citizen did not ever really get around to explaining.
Re Peary Court, what financing?
It’s a farce to say Peary Court is affordable housing, when 90 percent, or more, of the city’s workers cannot afford to live there. The real backers of this referendum, the Key West lodging industry, developers, Realtors, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tourist Development Council, want the city to buy and furnish housing for middle class workers, instead of paying their employees a living wage. Isn’t that communism?
Shameful, these two referendums.
Shameful the stories told about how Jimmy Weekley and City Manager Jim Scholl and Housing Authority Director Manuel Costillo “negotiated” the $55 million price tag. The developers told the city’s crack negotiating team that they wanted $67 million for all of Peary Court: $12 million for the FREE “affordable housng” building rights the city had GIVEN the developers, and $55 million for the rest of Peary Court. Castillo told the developers the city could not earn rents on building rights, so the developers said, okay, we’ll sell you the existing 157 units and the three units that burned down for $55 million, and we will build the 48 new “affordable” units on land we retain at Peary Court, which was said to be where the old credit union was located, 2-plus acres, but actually was more land than that spreading through Peary Court, and everyone knew the 48 new units would be effectively market rate rentals, called affordable.
Had the city really negotiated, instead of agreeing to the developers’ asking price, the city should at the very least gotten ALL of Peary Court for $55 million, including the FREE 48 building rights the city had GIVEN the developers.
Better, the city should have gotten ALL of Peary Court for $45 million, which would have reduced the purchase money mortgage by about $10 million, producing something close to actually affordable rental housing for perhaps 50 percent, or more, of the city’s workers. Costillo said at that meeting, the biggest concern he had was all the appliances at Peary Court might have to be replaced: stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, air-conditioning units, etc.
I wish you could have been at the city commission meeting last year, when I asked Jimmy Weekley what was the developers’ starting asking price?, and he said he did not remember. It was at Jimmy’s later public meeting in the ferry terminal that Costillo explained the “negotiations”, which I reported above. It was at that meeting, where a couple living in Peary Court, the husband said he had been a home builder, told of the many problems in just their unit.
At the recent public meeting hosted by Jimmy Weekey’s PAC in the Senior Citizen cafeteria, a Peary Court tenant told of the huge mold problem in her unit, determined by a mold inspector. Michael Miller, a local architect, who sat on the city’s Historical Architectural Review Commission, as its chairman, when HARC was denying the developers’ plans for Pear Court, lived in a Peary Court unit. He told me the developers were not maintaining the units and they were full of mold.
Over 200 lenders denied the city’s financing request for proposal, nearly all by not even bothering to make a reply to it. One lender made a counter-financing proposal, which would put the city’s treasury on the line for repayment of the mortgage, which the referendum wording does not allow.
The referendum is like spaghetti thrown against a wall, hoping some of it will stick, but it isn’t spaghetti – it’s crap, and it never should have been voted by the mayor and city commissioners to go to referendum. Only commissioner Margaret Romero voted against it going to referendum.
Sloan Bashinsky
Key West
305-407-4285
Sloan Bashinsky
Reply To: kharris@keysnews.com;
Wed 3/9/2016 5:17 PM
P.P.S.
Naja Girard sent something to me today bearing on the Citizen’s “guest column” topic.
… Here’s that email thread:
Blue Paper <bluepapermailbox@gmail.com>
Reply To: Sloan Bashinsky;
Wed 3/9/2016 4:07 PM
Guest Editorial:
http://keysnews.com/node/30582
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Keys Energy Services should reject extension of grid to No …
keysnews.com
Last Stand is proud to support the many residents of No Name Key who are models of sustainable living. These families have always lived without commercial electric …
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There have been many others over the years. Apparently they’ve changed their policy?
Naja
Sloan Bashinsky
Reply To: Blue Paper <bluepapermailbox@gmail.com>;
Wed 3/9/2016 5:04 PM
Thanks for this splendid ammo, even though, as I recall, the county commission finally went over to the Mother Nature rapers’ (capitalist pigs’) side …
Like, they changed their policy because they didn’t like what some of their guest columnists were saying? Or, they simply started selectively screening whose guest editorial they used? The way the Citizen lets Ed Swift carry on, you might think maybe he owns it :-).
They also changed something else. At one time, they had a readers blog under their local stories. It was really popular and, well, vigorous. Then, they got rid of the blog – back during the channel widening study referendum, wasn’t it, when citizens were ripping the referendum and its backers (the capitalist pig establishment) to shreds, yes?
Chow maim,
Trosky
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Last Stand is proud to support the many residents of No Name Key who are models of sustainable living. These families have always lived without commercial electric and water service. Instead, they rely on solar energy and cisterns to support a lifestyle in harmony with nature.
Those of us who do rely on commercial electricity and water would do well to emulate the conservative practices of this community, not only to minimize our monthly bills but to relieve the strain on the distribution infrastructure and scarcity of water in the Biscayne Aquifer.
Despite protections in the Monroe County comprehensive plan and code, and the objections of those citizens who want to preserve the example of a community living “off the grid,” a decision by Keys Energy Services board on March 23 may irreparably change life on this island.
Last Stand urges the board of Keys Energy Services to reject the “electric extension agreement” for No Name Key.
No Name Key is a substantially undeveloped 1,200-acre island connected by a county-owned bridge to Big Pine Key, and has never been “on the grid.” The island is the focus of major public conservation interests, with more than 75 percent of the land in public ownership as conservation land, which provides habitat for seven federally listed endangered species. County, state, and federal regulations weigh against changes.
Well over 95 percent of No Name Key is designated as a Coastal Barrier Resources System unit by the federal government.
The Monroe County comprehensive plan requires the county to “take actions to discourage private development in areas designated as units of the Coastal Barrier Resources System.” The law implementing this plan prohibits the extension of electric service to lands designated as units of the Coastal Barrier Resources System.
At its Dec. 15 meeting, the Monroe County Commission took three actions directly affecting Keys Energy’s project to extend electric service to No Name Key: 1) denied Keys Energy’s request for easements across county-owned lots; 2) refused to amend the comprehensive plan and land development regulations to allow the extension of utility services to No Name Key; and 3) directed its legal staff to file an action for declaratory judgment to clarify and resolve any issues raised by the Keys Energy project.
The requested judge’s opinion will not be the first legal opinion on bringing electric service to No Name Key. In a June 2002 summary judgment, Circuit Court Judge Richard Payne ruled: “The plaintiffs (an earlier No Name Key pro-electric group) have no property right to have electric power extended to their homes on No Name Key.” Judge Payne cited the Monroe County comprehensive plan and Chapters 163 and 380 of the Florida Statutes as the basis for his ruling.
We see many No Name Key residents living a normal life relying only on solar energy. We know that all these property owners were aware when they purchased their homes that there was no commercial electrical service.
When the homes were originally permitted, an alternative to commercial electric service existed. Recent developments in solar energy and investment incentives have provided much more cost-effective solutions to generators powered with fossil fuels.
For these reasons, we cannot see proof of a compelling public interest that commercial electric service is required.
Instead, we see a compelling public interest to encourage all residents living in the Coastal Barrier Resources System to adopt sustainable solar energy production and cooperate to maximize the efficiency and utilization of energy created in the community. We see a compelling public interest to preserve No Name Key and its sensitive habitat.
Last Stand asks the Keys Energy Services board members to respect the reasons these protections for No Name Key were established, to respect the actions of the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners and to reject the extension of electrical service when this item is considered at the March 23 meeting.
Mark Songer is president of Last Stand, a Key West-based civic organization whose stated mission is to promote, preserve and protect the quality of life in Key West and the Florida Keys, with particular emphasis on the natural environment.
I, Sloan, spent hundreds of hours trying to help the solar community on No Name Key repel the invasion, during which the carpetbagger and scalawags kept hollering their constitutional rights to be on the grid were being violated, even though it was they who had violated their own perceived constitutional rights by buying homes on No Name Key knowing full well there was no electricity or public water out there, and might never be.
Maybe the solar energy/rain water-drinking folks out there will have the last laugh anyway. My lady Kari called me last night to alert me to something she’d just heard on US 1 Radio, 104.1 FM, which led to me finding this online and posting it on my Facebook time line:
News of Turkey Point leak rocks Keys
March 9, 2016 by Sara Matthis
Drinking water is safe for now; experts worry about Biscayne BayWednesday’s news of radiation contamination emanating from the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant leaking into Biscayne Bay alarmed Florida Keys citizens on every level. First, the Keys drinking water comes from the same neighborhood as the plant. Second, the affect to the fishery — so close to home waters — could also have an enormous impact.“There is no tritium [a radioactive isotope of hydrogen] in our water supply,” said Kirk Zeulch, executive director of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority. Zeulch said there are numerous monitoring wells around the well field that pumps water from the Biscayne Aquifer and none of the tests show a trace. “But this needs to be kept on the front page to keep the issue from fading away. We need help from the state and federal authorities that regulate nuclear power plants and the studies need to continue.
Comments
Sloan Bashinsky I dunno, Kirk Zuelch is a lawyer, and if his lips are moving … Certainly, we learned during the Cudjoe Key Regional Sewer District grinder pump and shallow injection well fiascos, if Zuelch’s lips were moving, local B.S. detectors went haywire. About the same with Tom Walker’s lips, even though he ain’t a lawyer.
I dunno, if I wuz a visitor in the Florida Keys, I would not be drinking Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority water, or bathing in it, or diving into any swimming pools down here, or swimming in the ocean. Us folks already living here are glow worms from years of drinking chemicalized Aqueduct Authority water. Even so, might be Turkey Point will drive the already enormous consumption down here of booze, soft drinks, coffee, tea, power drinks and bottled water through the roof.
I dunno, the Turkey Point sitiashun could kill the Florida Keys real estate market, tourist, sports fishing, diving and commercial fishing industries. Lots of tourists and fishermen, and even some cruise ships stopped coming down here after the BP oil spill in the northern Gulf of Mexico, and after the dengue fever mosquito outbreak in Key West before that. Nuclear drinking and bathing water is a bit more freaky to think about.
I dunno, if I was a cruise ship company, I would not be letting my ships, which call on Key West, take on Florida Key Aqueduct Authority water, which cruise ships have been doing here for a very long time, instead of topping off their drinking water tanks in southeast mainland Florida seaports. Hell, if I was a cruise ship company owner, I just might tell my ships to go somewhere other than Key West.
I dunno, if I wuz someone on the mainland or overseas thinking about coming to the Florida Keys, I just might think about going somewhere else. Not only is there the Turkey Point sitiashun, there is heaps of scabies being passed around down here, and heaps of MRSA in the ocean and on the land being passed around. Google image scabies and MRSA to get your upchucker into high gear.
Heather Tallon omg this is crazy!!!!
Sloan Bashinsky If those Turkey droppings get into the Florida Keys Aqueduct, or drift down here in the ocean currents, it will be more like Armageddon medically and financially.
Heather Tallon be safe and bottled water?
Sloan Bashinsky I dunno what to do yet, I imagine I’ll be shown something in dream time. If the drinking water is radioactive, then that means the bathing water is radioactive, but I imagine drinking it is worse than bathing in it? All of a sudden, Chernobyl comes to mind, took the Soviets a good while to admit there was a problem there, and the extent of it took them even longer to confess.
Heather Tallon Scary Sloan!
Sloan Bashinsky Heather, it already was scary because of MRSA in the water and on the land, that’s pandemic in the Keys, so apparently is scabies. But the lodging, fishing, diving, sailing, etc. industries never gave out the public warnings, nor did the chambers of commerce nor the tourist development council, nor the local elected and hired officials. They have no way to keep a lid on Turkey Point, however, just as they had no way to keep a lid on the dengue fever outbreak some years back in the lower Keys, mostly Key West as i recall. The BP oil spill they could not dampen either, even though very little of it, of which we were aware, got this far. Yet it seriously dampened visitors coming down here, as well.
Heather Tallon be safe my friend 
Sloan Bashinsky I’m sprinkled with angel dust day and night, perhaps that will safekeep me, even though it tends to drive me wacky.
Heather Tallon LOL I love your humor through this – heck, I can relate, bad bad times in my life lately, gotta try and keep the humor heart emoticon
Sloan Bashinsky That is Mustang Sally’s philosophy
Sloan Bashinsky My lady Kari, who lives on the street here in Key West, lived many years on Key Largo. She alerted me to Turkey Point yesterday afternoon after hearing it reported on US 1 Radio. I just got off the phone with her. She said the people living on Key Largo must be freaking out, and last night she dreamed that she woke up with awful, gross sores all over her body. I took that as the angels saying this Turkey Point thing is really serious, and for me to cover it today at goodmorningkeywest.com, which I already had thought I would do. I’ve been in recent email conversation with Kay Harris, the Citizen’s Editor, about the Citizen not using guest columnists any more, unless maybe they are someone like Ed Swift.
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com
