Catchin Up !

Well first it was too dry …. then say hello to La Niño ! Let’s get caught up Current ENSO Status As of August 2026, the climate pattern has shifted from La Niña to a likely return of El Niño conditions. We are currently in an El Niño year, with forecasts indicating it will strengthen […]

TPP TRUTH & FPL SMOKE

Let’s Look at That FPL Tax Base — A Long-Read Explainer Public-records explainer · Village of Indiantown / Martin County Let’s Look at That FPL Tax Base Taxable value, taxes paid, and money the Village actually keeps are not the same thing. The gap between those three numbers is where a multi-billion-dollar utility extracts leverage […]

The Morning After – Now what ? Chaos is about to ensue

Finding Common Ground In a world fractured by ideology, identity, and competing visions of the good life, unity rarely emerges from forced agreement. It grows, instead, from the quieter, more difficult work of locating shared ground amid difference. Two neighbors stand on opposite sides of a heated local dispute. One sees industrial expansion as economic […]

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 […]