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County leaders fail to make masks mandatory

As we confront an alarming spike in coronavirus cases, the experts keep telling us that wearing masks is ...

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How do we get officials to require masks in public?

After an alarming spike in the number of coronavirus cases here continued into the weekend, I spent most ...

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Too many acting as if pandemic has passed

Anyone who has been out and about the past few weeks surely has noticed the dwindling number of ...

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Pandemic forces changes in campaigning for office

Campaign signs again are sprouting up around the county, as another election season is underway. This year, though, ...

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Justice shouldn’t seek 2nd School Board term

Regular readers of this column know that School Board member Tiffany Justice and I have had our differences ...

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For public officials, cheap shots on social media now come with the job

Contrary to what you might’ve read recently on City Councilman Joe Graves’ Facebook page, where he announced he ...

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CEOs run their companies from island home office

Peter Krivkovich doesn’t know when he’ll return to Chicago, where the coronavirus pandemic has hit hard and his ...

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Face masks? Social distancing? What pandemic?

It was the lunch hour at Mulligan’s on a sun-splashed Saturday in Vero Beach, and the crowd gathered ...

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Vero Beach Regional Airport: Real-life drama, or slapstick comedy?

If you’ve been watching the soap opera playing out the past few months with Vero Beach Regional Airport ...

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Class of 2020 mourns loss of a traditional finale to their senior year

Some of life’s most lasting memories are made during the final weeks of our senior years of high ...

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Vero Council vote to build new sewer plant true ‘no-brainer’

The City Council’s decision earlier this month to build a new sewage-treatment plant at Vero Beach Regional Airport ...

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Council’s hasty ouster of Elite Airways was wrong

The Vero Beach City Council was well within its rights when it voted last week to terminate its ...