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I hope everyone had a great weekend. This cold was something else. I was in Denver on Saturday and it was in the mid 50s. Very little snow, even at higher elevations. I flew back late Saturday night to low 30s, where it had been snowing earlier in the day.
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I had the rare opportunity to be off of work (mostly) for the last 4 days. Being a small business owner (including this) means that I am running almost non-stop... and the winter season in the photography world is the most busy with
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Happy Friday. Back to Crystal River. This will be an update to the Brannen Bank piggyback of the school board banking contract. As mentioned previously, the City of Crystal River opted to go this route to avoid the RFP process. This allowed them to hand pick Brannen Bank for the
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Man, who knew the most commented on post I would have so far is about the ban on new medical marijuana dispensaries. Almost 150 comments on it as of this morning. Appreciate everyone for their input and interaction and for the most part civility. I am going to let people
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Back to the City of Crystal River today. I was contacted by someone who is having issues with a public records request with the City of Crystal River. This is the records request they made: "I would like to make a public records request for all of Joe Meek&
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County Commission Tuesday where they will discuss the road presentation and sales tax referendum. I will be there as per usual. But today, I want to go back to the West side and talk small town politics and "problems" of being in a small town where everyone knows
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One of the interesting things that happens when I dive into an issue is that I often find something I was not even looking for. That causes me to expand the research into other issues. Such is the case today. When researching some things with the Crystal River City Manager
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Back to Crystal River. If you recall, a few weeks ago, I had covered the City Council's desire to fire their City Manager Audra Curts. The council members all submitted evaluations of Curts. Two of those reviews were bad, two of them were good. Mayor Joe Meek did
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Man oh man... where to begin. First, I apologize that this is long. I try to do summaries for those that do not want to read 2000 words, but this cannot really be summarized like that. So read to the end for the full picture.. For the first time in
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Here is an update to the Crystal River City Manager Saga.. Over the weekend, I have had several people reach out to me regarding this. I will never reveal sources unless 1) its a public record document or 2) they tell me that I can name them. In this instance,
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I don't talk about the cities too often, but when something big is happening, it gets my attention. That is the case here. Over the last weekend, I was told that there is movement behind the scenes to remove Audra Curts as the city manager of Crystal River.