Sunday Update – Risk Map, Town Hall 3.0, Carmine & Angelina stepping in it
A donor and developer interest approved this use of their land – “it is all about the relationships” ~ Carmine D.
Category: Indiantown Chamber
Sunday Morning Update – This week we recap 13 stories of Indiantown interest and influence
GO TO THE SECTION THAT SAYS “FOLLOW” & DROP IN YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS. YOU WILL RECEIVE INSTANT NOTIFICATION ONCE A STORY IS DROPPED. ONCE YOU SUBMIT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS THE SYSTEM WILL SEND YOU A CONFIRMATION E-MAIL. IT WILL EXPIRE SO REPLY IMMEDIATELY. THAT WAY NO ONE CAN USE YOUR ADDRESS AS SPAM. WE NEVER […]
FWC launched criminal investigations against detractors of over development and FWC Board – Josh Kellam is Member of the FWC Board in question.
Guess who is going to be placing a FOIA request or two? While little old Josh, from Garcia Group was busy buying back packs and votes at the same time it seems that he was overseeing the agency, as Member of the FWC Board of Governors, that is involved in criminal investigations of FWC Board […]
If I was running for office, I would not be there unless every candidate running is given equal opportunity to to be a part of the program.
It is easy to feel that the direction of Indiantown is being set somewhere else. Large projects move quickly. Information sessions are arranged. Community events are sponsored. Elected officials appear on stage to be thanked for their service. The public is invited to listen, to receive, to be grateful. What is less often offered is […]
Indiantown Still Belongs to Its People
It is easy to feel overwhelmed right now. The scale of change has been fast. Large projects have moved through processes that once would have taken years. Water capacity questions, industrial intensity, infrastructure demands, and the quiet arrival of new systems have stacked on top of one another. For many who live here — especially […]
Accelerated Entitlement and Institutional Capture – Time tells all (updated)
The Tesoro Groves Process and Indiantown Water Funding Pattern July 2026 Core Thesis The rapid industrial entitlement of the 5,722-acre Tesoro Groves property and the extraordinary concentration of state water infrastructure funding in the Village of Indiantown are not the product of ordinary hard work, organic community demand, or routine local government competence. They are […]
Seminole Inn 8 million for a restaurant approved – 7.5 million denied for Sheriffs Mental Health facility program.
On the morning of July 17, 2026, the news settled in with a familiar bitterness. According to Carmine DiPaolo, the governor had just approved eight million dollars for the Seminole Inn. A private restaurant would receive a generous public infusion while, in the same stroke of the pen, a 7.5-million-dollar request from the Martin County […]
When a Young Village Meets Organized Interests: The Indiantown Case
Young and Vulnerable A young government does not become captured because it is weak. It becomes captured because it has not yet developed the institutional knowledge, memory, and self-correcting mechanisms that older systems — even flawed ones — eventually acquire through hard experience. The Village of Indiantown, incorporated on the last day of 2017, is […]