I find several items in my mind of late. Each might be worthy of note… So I’ll pour out these maybe unrelated thoughts.

The Town Commission is passing an amendment to the zoning codes that not only emasculate the Planning and Zoning Board but open up the two major PUDS, Islandside and Harbourside to anything and everything the Lesser Corporation with the acquiescence of a compliant Town Commission chooses to do in the future.

The decision before the voters is clear. Between the incumbent Vice Mayor David Brenner and his opponent, Ray Rajewski, there is a glaring clear difference: the former for unfettered expansion versus the latter’s belief in carefully coordinated maturation.

It is up to the voters on March 20 to decide. The choice couldn’t be clearer. Did the people at PIC, Arvida and others who came along later have the right idea, or are Brenner and his colleagues correct in wanting to go a different route?

One of the questions I am most asked is how I seem to keep up with what is happening on Longboat Key since I don’t live there anymore. It is a very good question, and when I hear from two of my readers that they have been told by friends that they are not comfortable with showing any favor to the contender for the Town Commission, Ray Rajewski, because they might suffer some consequences, I do feel that I do no longer know the town.

There is going to be a very rare event on Longboat Key Tuesday, March 20: an election for the Town Commission. It is a contest for the third district, and it features current Vice Mayor David Brenner and challenger Ray Rajewski.

I think it’s a diabolic plot. Some almost super-natural power has conspired to give us Republican candidates so intellectually and politically constipated that they seem almost unable to engage in any kind of a meaningful dialogue on issues important to the nation. Our president, on the other hand, is so verbally agile that his public statements, when compared to his actions, sometimes seem to be bald-faced lies.

Life is a curious thing but on Longboat Key, it gets more and more curious.

This is a decision that affects hundreds of residents of Islandside and eventually more hundreds at Harbourside. Don’t let something this important hang on a decision by a judge

The Town Commission has decided that not only should they change whatever rules bothered the judge in the Longboat key Club lawsuit, but they should also go back and rewrite all the rules and codes.