I hope the commission slows down and makes a concerted effort to get input from the greater community before forging ahead. Especially since they have been shown to be almost completely out of touch with their constituents when it comes to increased density.

The biggest challenge confronting our community is minimizing negative impacts of the rebuilding process on neighborhoods and preserving the low profile charm that makes our island so desirable.

  STEVE REID Editor & Publisher sreid@lbknews.com The Longboat Village hosted what looks to be the final public showdown between this year’s crop of commission candidates. The event was part of the Longbeach Village Association’s monthly meeting and allowed At-Large candidates Jim Brown and Gene Jaleski as well as District 4 candidates Jack Daly and […]

For those who don’t know him (there must be some) I’ll rerun an interview I did on Gene just a bit over three years ago.

Brown, Jaleski and Spoll all seek a return to Commission.

The Florida Election Commission dismissed a remaining and final action filed by resident Gene Jaleski in the matter officially known as Jaleski v. Town of Longboat Key. The FEC concluded that the allegations raised by Jaleski did not implicate the election laws. Last month, the FEC dismissed another related complaint filed by Jaleski. The town […]

Here we have a Municipal Government seeking to punish one of its citizen activists for seeking to produce a better, more equitable project for all its citizens. How do you like that? Do you like that?

The way the town commission has gone about funding their underground power line project has been a more divisive process than any other endeavor in the history of our island.

It is far more malicious to use taxpayer’s dollars to pay attorneys and outside counsel to create the arguments to go after Jaleski in the first place — that is malicious and bullying.

Jaleski says Town influenced underground vote; Town says Jaleski acted with malicious intent.