Reading time: 3 minsOn election night March 10 2026, he took to social media summarizing the results as “Election Armageddon” for Boca’s incumbents and former council members.
Les Wilson
Les Wilson
With 35 years experience at IBM in simplifying complex statistics, systems and data for executive decision making, Les Wilson does research, analysis, video production, graphics and editing at BocaFirst. He is a retired IBM Senior Technical Staff Member in product Research and Development. He has a BS Degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. Les has lived in Boca since the early '90s, raised a family in several neighborhoods and is an expert resident of South East Boca. He is one of several Bike Advocates at BocaFirst.
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Reading time: 8 minsBallot Question #1 and #2 present significant taxpayer costs of hundreds of millions before providing any relief to the aging City Campus. This article describes an approach that accomplishes renovations using public land for public uses without dependingon the promise of return in 30 years from a P3. It renovates public amenities, the government buildings, and adds public facing economic drivers along with the possibility for an eventual transit district by the private sector.
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Reading time: 4 minsKeeping Citizens First, Inc. PAC was the recipient of $125,000 from the Citizen’s For Economic Leadership (CFEL) PAC. In 2025, that PAC donated $90,000 directly to the Running With Andy Thomson campaign PAC.
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Reading time: 5 minsThere’s been an explosion of money funneled into Boca Raton’s election and it comes from PACs. Two candidates have more PAC money than individual donations.
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Boca Viewpoint
The Money Maze: A look at who’s funding Boca’s $1,000,000 election.
by Les Wilsonby Les WilsonReading time: 10 minsWith so much speculation about campaign finances, we decided to dig into it and find out where the money came from. In this article I present our analysis of the public campaign reports and who is funding whom.
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Reading time: 11 minsThe police substation is missing from the Memorial Park land use concept diagram so expect that “whoopsie” to delete yet another amenity from “East Boca’s Patch Reef Park” to make room for the Transit District. Bye bye sports field?
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Reading time: 8 minsUn-blighted city buildings and public lands that bring only the traffic and intensity needed to run the city and police station will be redeveloped into a series of 8-story high-rises for what urban planners call a Transit Oriented District that brings all their traffic and intensity into one of the worst congested areas in east Boca Raton. The older privately owned properties will remain.
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Reading time: 5 minsThe cornerstone of a real protected intersection from which the other features follow are the reconstructed corners with “corner refuge islands”. The demo project at Mizner Park needs significant changes when implemented permanently in order to provide the safety benefits of a protected intersection.
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Reading time: 6 minsHow is it that in 2025, as we spend millions to fix the unfixable problems created by mindless construction of concrete boxes with windows and parsley on top, are we not preventing history from repeating itself in subarea D with Camino Square?
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Pedestrian/Bike Advocacy
Protected Intersection Prototype Comes to Boca.
by Les Wilsonby Les WilsonReading time: 4 minsThe demonstration project is located at the intersection of NE Mizner Blvd and NE 2nd St, just down the block from Mizner Park. It’s an interesting place to try the Protected Intersection principles
