Ole Bab’s is at it again

Barbara Clowdus’s statement is a classic defensive framing after a records-management complaint. It presents the Village of Indiantown’s process as ordinary, lawful, and transparent while casting critics (blog posts, “podcasts,” social media claims) as misinformed. It leans on statements from Clerk LaRhonda McBride’s role, Attorney Wade Vose, and Administrator Taryn Kryzda. The core claims mix […]

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 […]

The Trojan Horse at the Village Gate

If the Greeks were trying to take Indiantown today, they would not need a wooden horse. They would simply repeat a few carefully chosen phrases until enough residents stopped asking hard questions. That is the real power of official messaging: it can change a place before the people who live there realize what is being […]