Mayor Christine Dobkowski enters office.  Family and friends watched as Mayor Dobkowski and the city council got down to work.

Sub-plot: City Clerk Sandi McKamey becomes mini mayor for a day last week, and calls a telephone meeting of the City Council as new mayor is about to take office.

Is an unelected city employee over playing her hand?  Was her calling of council members a violation of the sunshine right of the public to be present? Will Governor Scott have to Step In?

Top on the agenda was a question of city staff going around the public meeting and calling for a vote on a hiring decision outside the public meeting format as called for in Belleview regulations.  Discussion centered around private phone call polling of commissioners to give a go-ahead to a city employee to obligate the city to an employment obligation.  The hiring bypassed the general public during these high unemployment times.  Voting against the end run hiring incident that occurred just days before the new mayor would take office was Mayor Dubkowski.  The question is why have an open public meeting if decisions have already been made by private secret telephone voting.   The lawyer for the city clearly pointed out that council business must be conducted in the sunshine and public employees acting as Para-Commissioners is not legal.  Marion Sun Times on the Record.

 Ocala Best effort recognition for clean campaigning in the Ocala Mayor's Race::  Randall  Alvord.

Congratulations for a successful campaign for Mayor Kent Guinn.

Stop runaway National Debt.  Ask Rep. Stearns to stop 20 years of increased budget overspending.  Give a big "thumbs down" on Federal Grants.  They are borrowed funds, not tax payer dollars.  Recent Emergency Management bunk house sounds good until you realize we went out and borrowed the funds from foreign interest and every penny will have to be paid back in full with interest.  Congressmen hand out "earmarks" by putting handouts in democrat party bills.  Stearns votes against bills that carry his own handouts.  If you can't get reelected without putting the US in debt then please step aside.  We support Ted Yoho for US Congress in 2012 district 6, Florida.

Remember, don't get involved in Grants if the funds must be borrowed from the Communist Chinese.  Often we forget that China is a communist country.  Should we be borrowing from them to finance our society?  Something to think about.  The Government is broke at every level.  There is no money to give out as grants! 

Big Weekend with perfect weather on Sunday as October comes to a close.  Marion County Pumpkin Run, Classic Auto Show.

Marion Sun Times/Villages News A video Find This One production. 

Marion County's Castro Farm Classic Auto Show,  Pumpkin Auto Run. 

We search far and wide to find the next great experience in Living.  The Villages News Editors

The Villages is what's happening in modern American Life.  (if you are important, or just think you are,  you visit the Villages.) 

High Life Cuisine is the reward for industrious, enjoyable gathering of the ingredients.  Go to our New Market and indulge. 

Soon we will visit Water Sources.  Stand by for News as it happens. 

Leading Art Attraction, Voted Best fun and relaxed quality Art Venue in Central Florida.  

All About Art of Belleview. 

 The Big Bang!

Scientist say the BIG BANG was 13,700,000,000 years ago.  (13.7 Billion)  That is 5 Trillion Days!  

In the last 20 years the US Congress has borrowed over $10 Trillion Dollars.  

That is $2.00 per day since the beginning of time!  We are borrowing what we can't pay back!

Time for old Line Congressmen to retire.  We have had enough. Let's have a debate on term limits.

Don Browning's Z06 takes best of show in Fast Yellow Corvette category.  

George Albright lll kicks off inaugural Really Cool Rides Charity Auto Show in Marion County.