Wednesday night's City Commission meeting was a study in awkwardness for both the City Commission and its interim city manager. What should have been a work session on coming to consensus regarding a possible city manager contract, was deliberately changed by someone in City Hall into a special meeting where votes are possible.
The City Commission tried to play "poker" Wednesday night with the interim city manager's employment package.
I will give them credit on a few hands: A two-month severance for the first year and capped at six months at three years of service and beyond, a $5,000 moving allowance returned if she leaves, an investigation for the most economical car allowance and a lowered salary than what she expected.
I modestly propose we send our local government representatives the query below and point out the injustice of being victimized by a law-enforcement that practices extortion on those they vow to "serve," A.K.A. the Department of Motor Vehicles.
If you were to see a manly man would you recognize him? Do you think it is the bravado, the muscular pecks, the ‘it’ factor, the charming smile, the Armani suit that makes a manly man? Do you think it is the Ryan Seacrest charm, Denzel Washington sex appeal, or the Brad Pitt looks?
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Courtesy photos/Wikipedia. Far left, a red tail hawk carries a snake up to a place for a forthcoming meal. At near left, a red tail hawk looks for rodents.
Each day, as I drive the rural roads on the way home, I usually see one or more red-tailed hawks on any given day.
Global warming is the biggest hoax of the century.
Al Gore and others insist that the world is in serious trouble the ice is melting and the oceans are going to overflow and engulf the land mass.
Gore has found a way to make millions of dollars. If he truly believes in global warming, why is he still flying his private jet,living in his large mansion and using the amount of energy for it that could run a city like Edgewater.
My husband and I returned to New Smyrna Beach after a week's vacation in Merida, Mexico. Driving back from Orlando, we thought we had come home to fires and were driving through smoke. But we got on the radio and learned it was fog. The closer to New Smyrna Beach, the thicker the fog became.
Then I got caught up on the New Smyrna Beach city government news.
Talk about "fog." The interim city manager, Pam Brangaccio, tried to pull a "fast one" with her bloated contract request, yet Commissioner James Hathaway did not "buy" it. Neither did Mayor Adam Barringer.
The U.S. Post Office and I are parting ways as much as possible (sometimes one must mail things, but I’ll use UPS or E-cards as much as possible). They drive me nuts! They keep upping their postage while their services stink and shrink daily. They blame their problems on everyone but themselves and I’m sick of it.
They had competition for online postal services so they made themselves a website, too, but you can only send via the most expensive ways from there otherwise you have to schlep your packages to their brick and mortar store to mail it at a more reasonable price.
I would modestly propose that the days of American security have had it. No longer can we depend on George Bush and Company for the only hope their administration promised: to secure our country, our lives and our fortunes. The Obama regime will have to struggle with that accumulated Republican mess, one so prodigious that the Good Lord Himself might declare, "The hell with it!"
Photo by William L. Newton/Darling NWR. This adult osprey is about to feast on fish.
Almost everyone being by the water has witnessed a brown bird with white markings on its belly hovering over the water, then swooping down to the water and then fly upwards again with a fish in its talons.
