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 […]

Sunday Update – What is Indiantown – is it the government or is it the people?

The Two Indiantowns A Reflection on Institution, People, and the Moral Order of Local Power There are two Indiantowns. One is the Indiantown of maps, codes, and official language. It is the legal corporation, the comprehensive plan, the land-development regulations, the annexation ordinances, the administrative processes, and the institutional memory of staff and elected officers. […]