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Ray McNulty

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Election chief dismayed by Republican write-in candidate’s primary ballot ploy

People run for local elected office for different reasons – to address a specific cause, or fulfill a ...

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Please don’t let council embarrass Vero again

My unsolicited, no-nonsense advice to the high-level Vero Beach city staffers who are currently preparing a new, more-demanding ...

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Urgency cited in push to revitalize Vero’s downtown

Vero Beach Mayor John Cotugno believes the city’s best chance to get voters’ endorsement of its vision to ...

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Arrested officer has only himself to blame

There seems to be a groundswell of community support for Christian Butterfield, the former Vero Beach police officer ...

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Defense attorney: Arrested Vero cop was just using his discretion

The attorney representing a former Vero Beach police officer accused last week of illegally disposing of more than ...

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Many voters denied voice in choice of next sheriff

Write-in candidate Deborah Cooney, whose bizarre accusations of rampant police misconduct are at the core of her campaign ...

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Tammy Bursick, steady hand on tiller at City Hall, will retire

Longtime Vero Beach City Clerk Tammy Bursick plans to retire next week, but she’s not leaving City Hall. ...

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Should a boardwalk that was ‘part of the fabric of Vero Beach’ be saved?

There’s a powerful, nostalgia-driven argument to be made for wanting to recapture the quaint, seaside charm of Old ...

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Three jeers for clown show on Three Corners

When it mattered most in the long Three Corners process – when we needed the five members of ...

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School Board majority puts on a tour de farce

The sickening and divisive politicization of public education in our community dominated last week’s School Board meeting, which ...

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Local entrant in Three Corners contest terms favored proposal ‘pie in the sky’

The leader of the lone locally based development group to submit a proposal for Vero’s Three Corners waterfront ...

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Hike in housing density seen needed to revitalize downtown

The Vero Beach City Council took another step toward adopting a downtown master plan last week, when it ...