Venice officer claims hostile work environment Officer Demitri Serianni claims the recent discipline against him was in retaliation for requesting records that show that Lt. Mike Rose regularly went to his Mahi Mac's Bait & Tackle shop in Nokomis while on duty -- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 06/25/10
Ed Martin: I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected Gondo story ||| Herald-Trib story Hizzoner drops acid, fantasizes that he's General Sherman in 1884, then gets into a piss-fest with that other idiot, Calamaras, over who was the worst mayor ever in the history of Venice -- YO, GUYS: pot, kettle, you both sucked, it's a tie -- both 06/23/10
London's Mayor Boris Johnson wants us to be kinder to BP Johnson wants sympathy for the beleaguered company, as "it is paying a very, very heavy price" for what was essentially an honest accident -- sorry, Boris, fresh out of that sympathy thing, but we do have plenty of oil, suddenly, and you are plenty welcome to all you can clean up UK TimesOnline, 06/10/10
Water to cost more because Venice residents are idiots and are now getting their just desserts How did we get to here? Let's start with that $2 or $3 million project a few years back that was solely for the purpose of getting reuse water to the ponds at the airport golf course -- remember how much Herb Levine and this web site bitched about that? Remember how we were made fun of when we said this day would come? Well, this day has come. -- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 06/09/10
Profiles in Dumbassity: How to start a war with the media that you are guaranteed to lose Isaac Turner sends an ill-thought email that will haunt him for the rest of his career here as city manager; sorry, Isaac, but it now officially sucks to be you -- Venice Florida! dot com, 07/06/10
Venice 911, the sitcom: Bathroom audio tapes? Yeah, we'd like to hear them too Ya know, ya just can't make stuff like this up... The fun never stops with our wacky police chief and her close group of friends that help her run the department; the big question now is: Can she keep council laughing into the fall election season when the ratings really count -- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/22/10
Chief Williams accused by officer of admitting to bugging the bathrooms at VPD Audio bugs in the crapper? Criminal investigations into this web site and Kim Hackett at the Herald-Tribune? City Manager and the mayor still strongly supporting a chief that has left the reservation? All this and it's only Monday? -- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/21/10
FOP vote of confidence bombs on itself as police support of Chief Williams drops to the ground Turns out the number of unhappy coppers is quite a bit higher than the one or two disgruntled employees that the chief and the mayor keep talking about -- 40% of the department doesn't support the chief or her new replacement good 'ol boy network -- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/13/10
Lt. Mike Rose and the Mahi Mac Bait Shop A simple public records request; look for the chief to spontaneously combust in 3... 2... cover your ears... NOW! -- Venice Florida! dot com, 05/26/10
A plethora of bizarre recent public records Police Chief Julie Williams is teetering on the brink of sanity, City Manager Isaac Turner is convinced that Venice has a better track record on the Sunshine Law than the First Amendment Foundation, and the firefighters union wants to provide the ambulance service when we all start opening fire on each other -- so basically at city hall, it's Situation Normal, All........ -- compiled by Venice Florida! dot com, 05/20/10
Has the Venice Police Department over-managed itself into law enforcement irrelevance? By failing to balance the need for public safety against its cannibalistic appetite for eating itself, the Venice Police Department, under the leadership of Chief Julie Williams, is becoming a danger to the very public it is supposed to be protecting -- Venice Florida! dot com, 05/04/10
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