Good morning! Since the campaign contribution reports came out, there has been some chatter about developers providing funding to the commissioners. This was a thing during the 2024 elections as well. State laws are clear. Individuals and corporations have the ability to donate up to $1,000 each. If someone
Happy Friday!! Today we are going to do our 3rd Meet the Candidate article. This time, I sat down with the incumbent for District 2, Diana Finegan. This was the longest conversation to date. We sat and chatted for 2.5 hours. Never expected it to go that long, but
Yesterday we talked about the BOCC agenda and how there was an item on there that did not have backup material as required by the Administrative Regulations. Today, we are going to talk about an agenda item that is completely missing. The final Impact Fee Hearing You see, on March
I have a question. The Citrus County Commission meeting agenda is posted on Tuesday afternoons, generally before 5pm the week before the meeting. This was done yesterday, although it came late, closer to 630pm when I saw it pop up. The county has administrative regulations on how items are added
I have a question. I assume there will be litigation regarding Betz Farm now that the termination letter has been sent to James Dicks and his Bravo Group. I assume the attorney that will be working on that is the one that has been working the Betz Farm deal... Rob
Good morning and Happy Monday! Today, we are going back to our Meet the Candidate series. Last week I sat down with Stacey Worthington and had a good conversation with her about Citrus County. With this series, I want to provide you with information about the candidates from these conversations.
I finally got a chance to sit down for a few hours to knock this out. I was up until 2am working on this last night and got it finished this morning. Today, I am going to break down the campaign contributions and how I will be doing it going
Well... I think it is safe to say that among the politically elite, I am probably the most hated person in Citrus County. First the outing of the potential data center... then the sand mine issue being outed... now Betz Farm contract has been cancelled. None of that happens without
A few weeks ago, I blew open the story about the Lecanto Boys, LLC mine site off Homosassa Trail and questioned if they needed a mining permit. At the time, it appeared the county was going on the assumption they were operating under vested use and non-conforming uses. I continued
Happy Monday! I apologize for being MIA this past week for the most part. I have been at a photography conference in St Louis where I was a speaker for the event. We get these cool banners that are larger than life (8ft tall). Kind of weird looking at your
Update on the Sand Mine off of Homosassa Trail. I wrote about the issues a couple of weeks ago. In short, I filed a code complaint over the mining operation that is going on there to provide sand/dirt for the parkway and other projects throughout the county. Code Compliance
Its PDC Thursday. Today will be interesting. The big talk will be about Cabot Farms and their desire to create a new land district call CCR... Cabot Citrus Farms Resort. If approved, this new land district will take the place of the current RUR zoning. Keep in mind here that