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Venice Florida! dot com exclusive:

It starts out slow and reads like a low-budget John Grisham novel, but this summer's must read book is not a novel at all -- it's the transcripts of what should have been a rather mundane set of closed meetings. Fear and loathing, intrigue, mystery, betrayal, and an incredibly surprising twist ending -- it's all here!

Farley is still trying to move the airport, council comes up with fake gag orders to keep the public and press from knowing what is really going on, and then there's this ingenious scheme to keep the public from knowing that taxpayers will likely be footing the bill for the negotiated increase in the VGA's rent -- woohoo, are we having fun yet?

	The Complete FAA Shade Meeting Transcripts -- Full Text

Related news from Venice Florida! dot com:

The complete text of the FAA's Notice of Investigation
Includes a mammoth history of the dealings between the city, the VGA and the FAA and details the FAA's concerns over charges of Diversion of Revenue aimed at the city
-- FAA legal document, 11/06/02

And now you know... the rest of the story
City Attorney Bob Anderson perpetrated a huge scam at the end of the shade meetings last year, but the question is: who was he scamming? Dan Boone and the VGA or the public?
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/16/04

Herald-Trib misses the airport, crashes into the trees
The newspaper's coverage of the FAA shade meeting transcripts was filled with so many factual errors that it defies explanation
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/19/04

Has Dan Boone lost his mind?
In one of the strangest twists yet, Boone accuses the city of fraud and threatens legal action; WARNING: Do not drink coffee while reading this story
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/22/04

My breakfast with George
VGA attorneys Boone & Boone get snapped while having a breakfast meeting with former city manager George Hunt; hilarity ensues
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/30/04

Mayor denies ties with Hunt in current VGA fiasco;
PLUS: former utils supervisor Shane Saputo sounds off on city manager, is told to have a nice day
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 07/02/04

Are the VGA's records subject to Florida's Government in the Sunshine Laws?
Martin County had a nearly identical dilemma, here's what the State Attorney General said (get out those document request forms)
-- Florida Attorney General's Office, official web site

Plus: even more articles on the FAA/VGA Shade meeting transcripts:

Stay cool in the shade with this summer's hottest reading
Herald-Trib's book review of the FAA shade meeting transcripts; Venice Florida! dot com gets a nice mention
-- editorial, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 06/24/04

Boone, VGA to city: we want our kickback
Venice Golf Association and their attorney, Dan Boone, feel cheated by not being able to cheat the city; Herb Levine surrenders
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 06/26/04

Send in the... elephants?
Geri Weinberg sounds off about the Shade Meeting Transcripts
-- letters, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 06/29/04

VGA, BBBK&F PR is FUBAR, VNC is ROTFL
Gondo zeroes in on VGA Shade Transcripts story with an excellent follow-up; best quote comes from former city manager George Hunt: "It would be stupid for me to take money from the VGA right now"
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 06/30/04

Yo VGA -- cough up the names
Herald-Trib takes a look at the Martin County dilemma that we posted and says "Hey, that's not bad"
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/08/04

VGA gets a media double whammy
Gondo story ||| Herald-Trib editorial
Gondo reports that the paw park lease is dead thanks to Larry Heath in city's Public Works; Herald-Trib's editorial asks for VGA to (gulp) open their financial records
-- both stories 07/14/04

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