Opinion articles written by staff or guest writers
Reading time: 4 minsThere is much at stake and residents were not invited into this conversation — they were managed around it. That should bother every person who lives in this city. The Council orchestrated this timeline months ago. The result is the minimum public engagement the process allows.
Reading time: 2 minsAt its February 10th 2026 meeting, Boca’s current City Council of Drucker, Wigder, Nachlas, Singer…
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.
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.
Reading time: 4 minsWe’ve seen this movie before. In this article I describe three resident petition initiatives in…
Reading time: 3 minsMeanwhile residents were fighting to protect our public spaces, then Councilmember Robert Weinroth was actively opposing them. His quotes from that time matter, because they show a pattern … a consistent disconnect between where the residents stand and where he stands.
Reading 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.
Reading time: 3 minsWhat’s unusual is how aggressively One Boca has been promoted politically. There is now a full on political advertising campaign in progress.
Reading time: 3 minsThere are several key pieces of information that were missing from the Mayor’s update that make it misleading to residents not closely following this project.
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?