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Unchartered waters?
Charter Amendment #3 An Amendment Changing the Requirements Necessary to Sell any City Water Plant or Electric Utility. Do you favor an...
Now is the time for fewer good workers
Jobs are the side effect of economic activity, not the goal . For businesses, the goal of economic activity is profit, even for so-called...
Where do your hard-earned tax dollars go, exactly?
Taxpayers. City staff, the City Commission, and the citizens themselves often speak of taxpayers and hard-earned tax dollars when...
Money talks, and so must we
The budget. It’s big. It’s imposing, complex, and big. Did we already say it was “big”? Yes. It. Is. For most of us, numbers that end in...
A pie in the face
Six-hundred-and-eighty-five million dollars is nothing to sneeze at. But its size isn’t what matters. What matters is how little we, the...
What makes Lakeland?
Before any of us – candidates, reformers, citizens – decide what needs to be changed to make Lakeland different we would all be wise to...
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