With election day upon us, don’t assume the races have been decided. About half the voters in Martin County will go to the polls within hours. The race with the greatest impact on Martin County residents is likely the one in our own backyard—the Martin …

An illness and unexpected hospitalization of one of the lead attorneys challenging Martin County’s Comp Plan rewrites resulted in postponement of the administrative law hearings set to begin Feb. 13; they will begin instead on April 14. Martin County and the other three landowners currently …

The legal settlement considered by the County Commission behind closed doors over the past six months and announced at Tuesday’s commission meeting was not a Sunshine Law violation…technically…as we had asserted previously. But it certainly violated the spirit of Sunshine. Three of the commissioners, Sarah …

It’s high time someone besides Martin County Currents and Sunshine State News speaks out about the impropriety of some Martin County commissioners meeting behind closed doors with the county attorney to discuss a closed legal case. The Pacific Legal Foundation—a 40-year-old public interest firm known …

Illogical votes by Martin County Commissioner Ed Fielding at the first commission meeting of the New Year and by Sarah Heard at the last of 2013 indicate nothing much will change as we enter 2014. Fielding voted against granting a liquor license to a well-established …