CLEAN UP THE BEACHES

TREASURE ISLAND GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION
WILL MAYOR MALOOF FULFILL HER DUTY
FOR PUBLIC CENSURE AND REPRIMAND?

Welcome to Silicon Beach USA, reporting on the actions and consequences of hapless government officials, elected and appointed, doing their doody on the sands of the Pinellas Gulf Beaches.

Unfortunately, cleaning up costs Pinellas Beach taxpayers more and more and delivers less and less.

Serious citizen movements are growing to dislodge the root cause of these problems: a quarter-century-plus of "old-boys/old-gals" networks of many elected and many appointed representatives and servants of the people.

They just don't get it. Why was the recent Pinellas Assembly such a failure? You'll get completely different answers from County reps and the rest of us. They really don't get it.

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