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Written on PHOTOS: Marco Island resident claims city, sewage project responsible for her sinking house:

themessiah: The strp program in this particular area happened last summer....the damage happened last summer. So it's not just "DAYS" after anything. One thing doesn't have anything to do with the other. Who are you the Messiah for? Yeah, I thought so.

Written on PHOTOS: Marco Island resident claims city, sewage project responsible for her sinking house:

Deltarome, I appreciate your expertise. Stands to reason that houses built on a "floating slab"might not be stable enough to be near wetland area. How permits were pulled back then, we will never know. But I do know this house is about 20 years old. How come this hasn't happened thru numerous torrential rainstorms, flooding and all the hurricanes it weathered?
I am not looking for reasons to increase costs to the city or the taxpayers, but no soil tests or any investigations of that area were made before the sewer project barged in. They were going to put the lift station on the pond site where the tidal flow exists (that keeps that pond alive) before the neighborhood objected. They have a schedule and a quota, with little regard to anything else.
They can at least accept the responsibility of contributing to that house's demise. It is more than a coincidence that that house twisted and sunk the same time the city screwed around with that area.

Written on PHOTOS: Marco Island resident claims city, sewage project responsible for her sinking house:

Mr. Deltarome engineer, I live 3 houses from the pond. I watched the pipes on her land dewatering it. The pond water level went dangerously the lowest I have ever seen it in 15 years. Sink holes appeared on her property. Do you work for the city?

Written on Letter to the Editor: From roses to rabbits:

Typical...when some one has "your number" and you know it and can't answer his challenges, you go for the jugular. Dirty. Shame on you, McMullan's got ur number. Admit it.

Written on Letter to the Editor: Dead horse alert:

Yes, if you and I go to the grocery store, we should pay the same price. Tell me why that doesn't apply to the Sewers? The $20,000+ assessment for new sewers is paying for the overpriced, archaic system we bought for repairs and upkeep. Unfair and I can't believe not illegal.

Written on Marco Island woman charged with improper exhibition of firearm:

Mai and her family are good people. Everyone has a breaking point. We tend to shun anything mental, mainly because we are so quick to judge, especially with things we don't understand or simply are not aware. Please know there are people out there that do understand and are willing to help in any way we can. Unfortunately children are victimized in situations like this and my thoughts and prayers are with the whole family. Just know you will not be shunned or avoided by the people that understand and care. And you truly will know now who your true friends are. Been there. Take good care, everything will be better soon...with help from those who care.

Written on Letter to the Editor: Who’s running Marco?:

Yeah, this "expert in the field for 40 years" was the one who admitted that we bought a utility (Florida Water) in desperate "disrepair" and "overpaid" for it, even though he was a vital proponent for the purchase. Now the newly sewered people are paying for that mistake. AND he still considers himself an expert in the field and obviously IS considered one by most of the "powers to be". Yet, he wants us to make the same mistake with the electric company. I don't get it.

Written on Guest commentary: A rose by any other name is still a tax:

Hey Issler, explain to me why your cohorts on the council have managed to create ways of raising the cost of living on this island in the little time they have been in office and continue to as we speak? I didn't hear that in all their campaign promises. Also that it could be justified that we hire 8 new city employees at this time? So far it seems like my taxes, water/sewer bill, electric bill and most likely a bridge toll will be the great accomplishment of your buddies. How do you support your thought process?

Written on Editorial: For whom the bridge tolls:

Of course there will be a toll. How else can you keep the riff-raff off this island. Another island farce.

Written on Marco Island to raise taxes, add fire assessment, increase staff :

None of you get it. It's all a sham. These things are a done deal, the council just puts on a show to make us think they want our input and then vote on it. The fire assessment, the STRP, the toll on the bridge and now the electric company purchase. They are all a "done deal". And a "deal" they are/were. Pockets are lined and will continue to be lined. Voting and referendums are a farce. The decisions are made way before the votes are in. The "study" on the electric company purchase is a laugh. Believe me, it will be purchased by the city. And our electric bill will soar, as our water/sewer has. How do you think they can get rid of the middle class on this island? The goal is "upper class" Marco Island only...bye bye "peasants".

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