County, MLB consultant dragged into court by Mogensen in new public records fracas
Judge Bennett to get a rerun, sort of: new cast, bigger scandal, bigger budget, same old song and dance
-- Pelican Press, 12/02/09

Police Chief's survey cooks up a good grade for the chief
Question: Who in the hell would commit career suicide and sign their name to a criticism? How valid can such a survey be?
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 12/04/09

Jet Center sale ain't a done deal, Clem
Them thar northern city boys in suits thinks theys a gonna waltz right in and they haven't even invited us over for a bar-b-que -- WTF are these city slickers thinkin'?
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/12/09

Wiand ignores potential Jet center buyer... and it's not the city
-- Hackett, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/08/09

Airport manager Watts jailed on charge of domestic battery
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/08/09

Wiand: I have a buyer; Gondo, Herald-Trib take Nadel receiver at his word when he says that the ballgame is over
Gondo story ||| Herald-Trib story
When an attorney like Burton Wiand teams up with Dan Boone. there's a dead rat around somewhere that'll start to stink
-- both stories, 11/07/09

Kathy Dent now deemed extremely trustworthy
In addition to running clean elections, the elections supervisor has eliminated world hunger and discovered the cure for cancer
-- Anderson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/06/09

Burton Wiand to form new band
Nadel receiver breaks off ties with former bandmates Fowler, White & Boggs, will tour next year as Burton Wiand and the Receivers
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/06/09

Batshiat Crazy Harry: "negative news coverage" cause of cancer, election loss
Walia was perfectly sane until tales of his insanity were reported to the public; death threats and false police reports should have been a winning strategy
-- Hackett, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/05/09

Ed takes the election numbers out for a spin
Bennett won because the voters intuitively recognized his infinitely superior intellect... there goes that whole fairies and gnomes conspiracy theory
-- Ed Martin's blog, 11/04/09

Election numbers -- final results
-- official Sarasota Elections web site

"Mixed message in Venice vote" -- Mixed message? What mixed message? Can you folks not read simple numbers? What the hell are you talking about?
A psychotic and misogynistic madman lost by a hair while a pro-growth Sue Lang hater won -- if that's a mixed message, you have dyslexia
--Hackett, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/03/09

Comp plan actually scored pretty high, all things considered
Wait... what... ? The Herald-Trib is finally admitting that Martin, Lang & Co. are doing a good job? Is the world ending? The Sun exploding? The return of Christ? What, just tell me...
-- Eric Ernst, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 11/02/09

Herald-Trib: OK, so we can't actually bring ourselves to endorse Walia or Carlesimo, what the heck, they are pro-growth and we gotta sell newspapers
Kim Hackett and Zac Anderson drink the Walia Kool-Aid... from a job security perspective at a pro-growth newspaper, not a dumb move
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/31/09

"Questions remain about candidates" -- really? Yo, Giles -- exactly what questions do you still have?
Two Walia apologetic paragraphs about stuff they are now forced to write about, ten paragraphs on the same crap about Bennett that they've dragged out like a dead cat time and time again -- yup, welcome to Fox News in print)
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 10/31/09

Their story:
Police not charging Walia with filing false police reports because they have no evidence are refusing to look at evidence brought to them
Batshiat Crazy Harry thinks it is OK to call the cops on bogus incidents, cries "smear campaign" when people call the cops on him
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/30/09

Cop out or crap out? Herald-Trib endorses its own navel instead of any of the council candidates
With Tom Tryon on vacation, the newspaper opts to endorse nobody, which saves them the embarrassment of having to backtrack on all of the wonderful things that they wrote about Batshiat Crazy Harry and his running mate, Emilio
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/24/09

Batshiat Crazy Harry goes over the top over unpaid bill: "He tried to burn down my house!"
Pssst... Hey Harry... This web site has hired a voodoo priestess, so if you get any sudden pains, feel free to call the cops...
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/28/09

Venice Jet Center: To buy or not to buy, that is the question
Whether it is nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous litigation, or by purchase, end them
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 10/28/09

Herald-Trib: Let's avoid the Walia scandals by publishing yet another Sunshine lawsuit wrap-up story
Not in story (for obvious reasons) but should be: Mogensen is gearing up for an exponentially bigger Sunshine lawsuit against the county commission over the baseball park deal and guess who may be named as a liaisons between commission members? Some editors and staffers of the Herald-Tribune... gee, we wonder why the H-T wants to focus just on Venice's Sunshine lawsuit?
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/22/09

Gondo endorses Carlesimo
No surprise as news editor Greg Giles continues to give rim jobs to Carlesimo and Walia
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 10/21/09

Ed Taylor is on Facebook -- Welcome to 2005!!!
In a failed attempt to be hip with the young crowd (who have all moved on to Twitter and are now moving out of that, too), Taylor's Sun Fiesta pics are online on his Facebook account; surprising news from the photo set is that both Taylor and his con-man candidate, Ahluwalia, are apparently legally allowed to mingle with your children
-- Ed Taylor's Facebook photos

Peg Nadel flaps her gums and this somehow qualifies as news
Wife of investment swindler Art Nadel (aka mini-Madoff) says nobody stole the money in Nadel's Ponzi scheme, it just "evaporated;" Nixon's dog, Checkers, unavailable for comment
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/19/09

Well, you could always sell the land
FAA says airport can sell land that Sharky's and the Senior Friendship Center are sitting on... ya know, that's not a bad idea
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/17/09

Art Nadel should be released because his heart is breaking... literally
In Venice, we love our crooks and Art Nadel is one of our most beloved con artists ever. Free Art Nadel. Free Art Nadel. C'mon people, say it with me: Free Art Nadel!!!
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/16/09

Sunshine lawsuit ooopsie: Anderson rejected settlement money offer from insurance company without telling his client, the city
In legal ethics, that's a no-no... that's a big no-no, a majorly huge no-no... in fact, if you get a settlement offer and fail to tell your client about it, that can earn you a bar complaint
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/13/09

Eric Ernst has a great idea: Let's just stop the acrimony and believe anything the candidates have to say
We have a better idea, Eric: It's called fact-checking and vetting, and we did it on your web site -- yes, Eric, you've been punk'd... by yourself
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/11/09

Ahluwalia campaign threatens Venice Florida! dot com: "we are coming for you"
Awwwww... that's so cute... I never get threats like this anymore, not since Dean did a duck and dive job to run for the Georgia border
-- Venice Florida! dot com message board, 10/11/09

Frassetti gets a Fark trifecta -- part 3 gets Farked
-- Fark.com, 10/09/09

Lang targeted by ex-councilman Willson for "indiscretions"
It's a conspiracy within a conspiracy hidden in an enigma wrapped up within another conspiracy; JFK's brain in a jar unavailable for comment
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 10/07/09

Herald-Trib's Tom Lyons adds his voice to the Frassetti Fiasco
Chief Williams refuses to talk, is now reported to be in hiding in an undisclosed location
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/06/09

Venice cop to wife of missing person: "Yeah, you're husband's fine, just spoke to him, no problem"
Problem: missing husband was probably already dead at the time that one Venice cop claims he spoke with missing hubby... I wonder who that cop could possibly be? Was there an internal affairs investigation? No? How very strange...
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/03/09

Frassetti saga gets Farked (part 1)
and Farked again (part 2)
Both parts of our Frassetti story are picked up for national distribution by Fark (Thanks, Fark); Question: will Fark give us a Frassetti trifecta with part 3?
-- Fark.com, 09/27/09, 09/30/09

Harbajan Singh Ahluwalia upset that Taxpayers League doesn't like him
The nutboy from India wants partisan politics to be nice to him so he can sling mud -- sorry, Harry, it doesn't work like that
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 10/03/09

Frassetti 1, Williams 0
Herald-Trib picks up on Venice Florida! dot com's coverage of the Frassetti Fiasco
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 10/02/09

Turner blames previous council for current council's airport woes
Little known fact: The Mohamed Atta Memorial Airport was actually in Venice before Ed Martin became mayor -- it sounds wacky, but it is actually true
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 08/29/09

Simmonds' email is just the cutest little goof-up you ever saw
Nadel's email buddy had a little accident, an innocent mistake as Gondo's Greg Giles puckers up and apologetically kisses Simmonds' bony ass; Sue Lang and Ed Martin can still BURN IN HELL!!!!!
-- Venice Gondolier-Sun, 08/26/09

Hans Behrens faces state charges; clerics admit that there may actually be a god after all
It's been a year since The Velluci Papers were published on this website -- a nine part in depth expose' that is also a major part of the back-story for this case.
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 04/30/09

Noren-Taylor releases three hostages in exchange for pizza, still holding out for plane to Brazil
City's SWAT team not sure what to surround,  befuddled by cryptic demands given by city councilwoman in the latest mondo bizarro twist in city's public records lawsuit
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 02/27/09

Sunshine lawsuit settled (maybe, possibly, it might happen, but...)
Herald-Trib's worst nightmare realized -- no more stories about late night food and sex orgies at Mayor Ed Martin's house; Cult of Sue to celebrate with ceremonial goat sacrifice
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 02/19/09

Anthony Lorenzo is/is not a nice guy who is/is not out to improve government and/or line/not line his own pockets
In other news, got/no got milk (includes a mention of veniceflorida.com -- thanks, Eric)
-- Eric Ernst, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 02/17/09

Nadel to stay jailed, Simmonds to sign up for conjugal visits
♪♫ "Prisoners of love, blue skies above" ♫♪
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 02/18/09

At long last, the comp plan
The boring stuff of government, but the Gondo tries to work some scandal out of it anyway
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 02/18/09

Newest threat to Florida coasts: cheap Narco Submarines
Drug smugglers get crafty with this easy-to-scuttle mini-sub; two have already been seized off the Florida coast
-- Wired, 01/21/09

Feds, new cellmate to deeply probe Nadel's assets
with hilarious UFIA pic of Nadel -- "Oh Baby! Show me the money!!!"
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 01/29/09

VABA gets a new web site: NadelReceivership.com
Way to go, guys, thanks for bringing kudos and congratulatory backslaps to the Venice Airport and to your fine organization -- it's always nice when Venice gets good press
-- NadelReceivership.com

Nadel turns himself in to FBI in Tampa, claims he left the money in his other pants
Bilked investors hope Nadel's new roommate is 6 feet tall, well hung, and knows only one phrase in English: "Show me the money!"
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 01/28/09

Noren-Taylor goes postal on fellow council members over Sunshine Law lawsuit, claims she did nothing... and therein lies the problem
OK, Vicki: Your city clerk and your I.T. director have just admitted under oath that they haven't been archiving public records emails, that years worth of stuff is missing, something that all of us out here in the public knew anyway, and in your five years on council you did what, exactly, to address the problem? I'm sorry, I can't hear you, could you repeat that?
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 01/28/09

City clerk, city I.T. department to council: We're going to start archiving public records emails -- no really, we mean it this time
Gondo story | Herald-Trib story
Stelzer and Heiss now have a plan to deal with records retention in the digital age -- Welcome to 1992
-- both stories 01/28/09

So how slimy is Art Nadel? Pretty damned slimy, it turns out... in fact, incredibly, outrageously, and unbelievably slimy
St. Pete Times looks back on a life of sleaze and thievery -- ahhh, the memories
-- St. Pete Times, 01/26/09

WWSB video: Venice Airport businessmen pray for Art Nadel; Venice Jet Center kicks WWSB out of their terminal
Isn't that special?
-- WWSB video, 01/19/09

Venice Jet Center's Art Nadel is missing... so is $350 million
CNBC | CNBC video | BBC | NY Times|Herald-Tribune | Google news collection | Gondo - no story, asleep at the switch
So much for VABA, the Boone law firm, John Simmonds, the former Airport Advisory Board, and much of the Sunshine Law lawsuit -- hang your heads in shame boys, this game is over
-- news broke on 01/15/09, evening posts