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Posted on November 19 at 12:54 p.m.
I didn't think hide away beach residents read the NDN, just Barrons and Vanity Fair. From the blogs here, I stand corrected.
Posted on November 19 at 11:58 a.m.
nice story
Posted on November 19 at 11:50 a.m.
Rats have rights too!!! We need to be more politically correct towards our fury and scaly brothers. If we don't stand up for the vermin, who will? Let's relocate all the cockroaches too. Every living thing has a right to live, Right?
Posted on November 19 at 11:42 a.m.
This is a never ending sand pit we will just keep pouring money into. They killed the pines on Coconut to drive out the campers blocking "their" view. Now they have the full gulf to themselves. Deal with it.
You people built a house in an unstable area. Why should we have to bail you out every year. Quit begging a hand out. You have your own money.
This bathroom idea is a joke. They'll just bury it in bushes and padlocks. They have no intention of letting us use their beach. They just want us to pay for it.
The years they have friends on the board they get the money. We are all just suckers if we let this go through, and we will then deserve what we get.
Get mad. This money should be spent on tourist development projects like Tigertail facilities, boat access, trail improvements, conservation, and promotion, not private mansions. Shame on you public leaders that support this.
Posted on August 29 at 7:48 a.m.
Carr's a good man. Thompson is heading in the right direction. We've got some good times ahead of us.
Posted on August 27 at 7:24 a.m.
Hey Frank, you weren't voted in to start more silly crusades. Leave well enough alone. This area is actually part of Goodland, the blue collar hang out. The place where all your servants live. The city lines were drawn because Moran and Calusa didn't want county rule. But the people are definitely Goodland.
I was a top executive of a fortune 100 company in Chicago. I've been to the Saturday night cotillion. I was invited by a famous 70's rock band friend of mine. There were earthy good people, good music, good food. I strummed my guitar poorly, but was welcome to sit in. My normally sedate wife was even coaxed to play a wash tub. What a hoot. We laughed and never saw a more congenial group.
We'd rather keep this our secret though Frank. To much publicity will draw the wrong crowd. And: remember Frank; If the King wants to hang out in the servants quarters, the King has to understand the decor might be not what he is used to.
You've also got to give the worker bees someplace to blow off steam, play a little music, dance, joke, and yes occasionally fight. Otherwise Monday around the castle will be a little tense
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Posted on June 5 at 9:03 a.m.
One more silly idea: Why not use the tourist tax millions that currently go to putting new sand on private Hideaway beach each year.
We could float a bond with this money as security. The only downside would be; the millionaires on hideaway would have to pay for thier own beach errosion, caused by thier own environmental blunders. Did I say silly?
Posted on May 20 at 10:08 a.m.
Leave the sand where it is, move the people.
Posted on May 14 at 8:49 a.m.
People shouldn't live in sand castles on the beach and make me have to pay for their sand. Every few years our money goes to "save" a beach these people have been actively destroying for fifteen years. Their minions took out the "non-native" vegetation on Coconut Island to improve their view, now Coconut is Coco NOT. These homes now have a direct NW gulf view. Nice to look at until a hurricane looks back at you. For anyone familiar with the dome home on Cape Romano you've seen the future of hideaway.
No amount of our money is going to save their homes. When nature wants it, she'll take it. Hideaway start making your escape plans and stop wasting our money.
I got a good chuckle about the public use of this beach in this story. Just try to set up a bar-b-q on the beach front of one of these muckity mucks and you'll meet Guido and his dobe.
Reality is: these folks have enough power and money to get their sand whether we like it or not. I just muse the day a good North Wester ends all this silliness.
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Posted on November 20 at 8:28 a.m.
Van, I think you just made my case. Most of us don't have your privileges and good fortune. Your view point is valid and real to you, because that's all you've known. Try to think like the parents of those kids you help.
Food for thought: Even though a Bill Gates type gives millions to charity; it is still only 5% of his net worth, while a single mother of three only gives a few hundred, it represents 10% of what she's worth. Who is a more worthy soul?
Thank you for your charitable help to date, but does that guarantee a hand out to protect your property. Mine floods regularly, my problem, I choose to live there.
Oh, and about the decisions on Coconut, prudence prevents me from specific implications. The attorneys in your family would agree.
I just have one more question: Before you decided to build on hideaway, did you ever see the Dome home ruins at Cape Romano?
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