by Bright Light | Mar 10, 2016 | Local, Watchdog Port St. Lucie
Not surprising given all the investment failures of City Hall doling out your money. Moody’s Investors Service has placed the ratings on Port St. Lucie, FL’s general obligation, non-ad valorem, lease and guaranteed debt on review for downgrade. The review...
by Bright Light | Oct 6, 2015 | Battlefield, Local, Watchdog Port St. Lucie
Taxpayers are paying the city to employ road pirates to rip them off on the road rather than fight actual crime. The city has re-established its traffic-enforcement unit, which was disbanded in 2012 in a cost-cutting reorganization of the Police Department by...
by Bright Light | Oct 1, 2015 | Local, Watchdog Port St. Lucie
Wow. What gall. This guy worked as City Manager when Port St. Lucie was going almost a billion dollars into debt and sticking you with the bill. Oravec “managed” that. Now to be blessed or ordained in his widsom he portends to vomit at a useless...
by Bright Light | Oct 1, 2015 | edc, Local, Watchdog Port St. Lucie
Port Saint Lucie should have heeded economist Thomas Sowell’s wisdom. But they didn’t. Thomas Sowell taught us: It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no...
by Bright Light | Sep 16, 2015 | Local, Watchdog Port St. Lucie
PSL residents gave their wannabe Overlords hell in City Hall. And rightly so. The pirates in suits occupying City Hall pointed their guns at the whole city and said something like “Fork over another 18% this year. Suckers.” The council voted 4-1 to raise...
by Bright Light | Sep 10, 2015 | Local, Watchdog Port St. Lucie
Interactive timeline below PSL Mayor Greg Oravec is out with a column based in City Hall fantasy rather than Main Street reality. Oravec starts out trying to bullshit PSL residents. As Port St. Lucie came of age in the 1990s and 2000s, our leaders were devoted to...