Sunday Update ~ Special Talkin With NoMo

The “bread” offered to Indiantown is the promise of jobs, tax base expansion, infrastructure investment, and—most visibly—recreational amenities that families can see and touch. Officials and applicants repeatedly invoke the same set of material benefits. Rome’s citizens did not wake up one morning and decide to abandon the Republic. The transfer of power was gradual, […]

Government Does Not Get to Demand Blind Trust

Government does not get to demand blind trust from the people it serves. In Indiantown we are being told, again and again, to trust the process. Trust that a massive light-industrial Planned Unit Development on more than five thousand seven hundred acres of former agricultural land will somehow protect the rural character the Village’s own […]

“Talkin With NoMo” – Ms. Melissa – we talk yard signs candidates & contributions

$1,000 per person (or entity) per election under Florida state law is the maximum single contribution allowed. This is the statewide limit that applies to candidates for Village of Indiantown Council (and other municipal offices). Local governments in Florida are expressly preempted from setting different contribution limits. Key Details from Florida Statute § 106.08 Indiantown […]

Bread & Circus in Indiantown

Panem et Circenses Bread & Circuses in Indiantown Economic Capture, Institutional Capture, and Zoning by Fiat A Roman Lens on How Superficial Benefits Enable the Industrial Conversion of Rural Martin County By Eric D. Miller “…the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions—everything, now restrains itself and anxiously […]