Palm Beach County beefs up auditing efforts
Years of scandal convinced the Palm Beach County Commission Tuesday to beef up the county’s internal auditing. The proposed changes give the county’s internal auditor more responsibility for monitoring and reporting on county operations and management. They reinforce policies giving the Read More
Read More >>Hundreds “chilling” on yearly Antique Row stroll
By Beach Blogger at 7 March, 2010, 5:33 pm
Despite the too-low-for-the-season temperature, hundreds strolled up and down West Palm Beach’s design district Saturday night for the Young Friends of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County ’s yearly Evening on Antique Row. Dixie Highway was shut down to cars between Southern Read More
Read More >>Nesting turtles and their babies be damned, Rush Limbaugh wants lights on at night
Rush's ad Rush Limbaugh cares as much for baby turtles as he does for the Democrat’s jackass. Palm Beach radio talker Limbaugh is sick of laws protecting the giant marine reptiles, and he wants everyone to know. Limbaugh is buying newspaper ads this week — one in today’s Read More
Read More >>Santamaria blames scaled-back Crist meeting for skipping Tallahassee lobbying trip
By admin at 2 March, 2010, 2:05 pm
Palm Beach County Commissioner Jess Santamaria blamed a perceived slight by Gov. Charlie Crist for keeping him away from the county’s lobbying trip to Tallahassee this week. Santamaria has been a past critic of county commissioners spending taxpayers’ money to travel to Tallahassee for Read More
Read More >>Tab growing for new Palm Beach County ethics reforms
By admin at 24 February, 2010, 8:33 pm
Ethics reform doesn’t come free. That was the message from Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday who formally approved a new fee on county contracts to pay for the operations of a new inspector general – charged with weeding out government waste and corruption. But before the Read More
Read More >>Palm Beach County explores more countywide commission elections
Palm Beach County plans to take up the politically-charged issue of potentially changing how county commissioners are chosen. County attorneys are now researching the options for making the commission more representative of and responsive to the people the board represents. This comes in the wake Read More
Read More >>Palm Beach County Democrats to host live web chat with Haiti
The crisis in Haiti is the focus of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party’s Feb. 4 meeting. The group plans to get a live update, via a web video connection, from a representative of the Democratic Executive Committee who has remained in Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake. Other scheduled Read More
Read More >>Former judge joins Palm Beach County’s new Ethics Commission
Former Circuit Court Judge Edward Rodgers was selected Wednesday as the latest addition to Palm Beach County’s new Ethics Commission. The appointed commission is charged with helping enforce new ethics rules county commissioners approved in December in response to corruption scandals that have Read More
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