Month: August 2011

The two smartest political votes that Palm Beach County voters ever passed were Term Limits for county commissioners (2002) and Single Member Districts for the county commission […]

By George Noga

A federal balanced budget amendment (“BBA”) is favored by 74% of Americans; they believe it will, once and for all time, force fiscal discip on the government. They are putting way too many eggs in the BBA basket.

Watch out what you wish for. If there is a BBA, all those eggs will end up scrambled into a rather unpalatable omelet.

With all of the hysteria regarding Standard & Poor’s downgrade of U.S. government debt, and the blame game going on by the talking heads (Democrats), let us […]

As you tap away on your iPad or laptop, it may be hard to remember an unwired world. But as most adults 40 and older will attest, […]

“They’re rioting in Africa; There’s strife in Iran. What nature doesn’t do to us, Will be done by our fellow man.” Sheldon Harnick, “The Merry Minuet” (performed […]

With the presidential election year on the horizon, the various political teams are starting to regroup, huddle up and yell “break” as they send their members out […]

U.S. Rep. Allen West visibly winced when Sid Dinerstein, chairman of the Republican Party of Palm Beach County, introduced him to speak before members of the Republican […]

With the exception of Fire-Rescue, which has its own collective bargaining agreement, Palm Beach Countygovernment has not required departments to perform annual employee performance evaluations since 2004. […]

West Palm Beach city commissioners tackled a fullagendaon Monday, but the topic that elicited the most fireworks wasn’t even on the agenda – single-member districts. The agenda […]

At last. Parent groups are catching on to how unions rope unwary parents into their schemes. This has spawned a Big Flap between teacher’s unions and parents. […]

The next presidential election is 15 months away, and 2012 (like most elections) will come down to themundane, everyday, bread-and-butter issue of economics. I submit that the […]