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Posted on June 16 at 9:29 a.m.
sailingby:
It is against Florida law for an electric utility to bury wires without charging the community the full price of doing so. The purpose of the law is to protect other communities from having to pay for the benefits received by a different community. So, if Marco residents want the wires buried, Marco residents will have to pay to bury them one way or another.
When a new community is established, the developer may wish to have the utility bury the wires for aesthetic reasons, but he pays the utility to do so (or does it himself) and the cost is "buried" in the cost of the homes.
Underground utilities are not an unmitigated blessing. Although they may reduce the number of outages, they increase the duration of each outage. In the case of a flood or hurricane, you can expect the island to be without power for a week or more while the utility locates problems underground and repairs/replaces the flooded transformers located on pads above ground. Rony will be very busy running his generators from lift station to lift station to keep your excrement flowing while the power is out. Those transformers in their ugly green boxes are not the most beautiful addition to our island either!
On Happy LCEC customers in Marco speak out against city-owned electricity services
Posted on June 13 at 1:14 p.m.
Of course, E. Glenn could argue that he slept through his last four years as councilman so they don't count. He only woke up now and then to bellow at citizens speaking at the podium and he never read e-mails he didn't like. He had that Archie Bunker-like quality of knowing what he knew before he knew it. Ah! "Those Were the Days". You've got a lot of egg to wipe off your face Mr. Tucker. Couldna happen to a nicer guy.
On Former Marco Island City Councilman Glenn Tucker applies for city attorney job
Posted on June 13 at 10:51 a.m.
Forgot to say there's obviously more than one law (in this case a Charter Provision) E. Glenn Tucker doesn't know about!
On Former Marco Island City Councilman Glenn Tucker applies for city attorney job
Posted on June 13 at 10:49 a.m.
Whew! What a relief, OldMarcoMan!
On Former Marco Island City Councilman Glenn Tucker applies for city attorney job
Posted on June 13 at 8:48 a.m.
Shouldn't City Attorneys know the law? How can a man who bragged about deleting e-mails from constituents by the dozen be considered for the City Attorney position? He encouraged the persecution of Chuck Kiester for deleting e-mails but exempts himself from the same law.
Furthermore, his firm's business is based on Marco Island much of which (all of which?) is related to development. Will he not have a continual conflict-of-interest problem?
To paraphrase the man: "I retch at the very thought of him as City Attorney."
On Former Marco Island City Councilman Glenn Tucker applies for city attorney job
Posted on June 11 at 5:27 p.m.
So let's rally around it and what it stands for: a free but responsible press, an educated electorate that can't be led by the nose but does its own research, individual freedom and responsibility and a capitalist system that let's individuals prosper by minimizing government interference and taxation.
Posted on June 11 at 5:20 p.m.
Keep drinkin' the Kool-Aid.
Posted on June 11 at 2:27 p.m.
Question is: will our military salute Barrack Hussein Obama if he does become President?
Posted on June 11 at 2:23 p.m.
Semper_Fidelis:
Could be. We'll have to wait and see. I prefer a bartender to a bankrupt who lies about his education. At least the bartender can probably mix a good cocktail, but what can a bankrupt do? Open a bank?
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Posted on June 16 at 4:43 p.m.
Archie Bunker for City Attorney! Edith for Chief of Police! Meathead (Power to the People) for City Manager! Gloria for City Clerk! Ah, what a city we'll have!
On Former Marco Island City Councilman Glenn Tucker applies for city attorney job