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Key West grief: Coping with the ways Covid-19 changed us forever
Key West's legendary resilience fascinates me. Pick any moment in its 200 year history and watch as its citizens wrestle with impossible disillusionment, gut-stabbing failures, slavery, wars and plagues. Stratospheric wealth cheek-by-jowl with crushing poverty. And woven though it all a near constant threat of storms and assorted Mother Nature pestilence. Not to mention no reliable local sources for water, electricity and communication.
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Key West voters: Take a deep breath. Vote yes on 3.2
Key West homes like those proposed for the 3.2 acres are a sound, smart start to re-building a stable home market for the island’s working families. The more secure our working families, the stronger our local economy. Let’s don’t let our burgeoning, 21st-century cynicism — or our esthetic arguments over paint colors — get in the way of doing the right thing. We need that 99-year lease to put us on the right path. Vote yes.
Living in Key West: Part 3: cat hair, garbage cans and fresh water conchs
It doesn’t take a degree in demographics and a passion for data dumps to know when Key West’s snowbirds arrive. Lights in that once dark house come on at dusk. There are peals of laughter across the fence line and the rumble of interesting conversations of which I can hear a few key words if the breeze is just right. They’re the early dog walkers ready with a “good morning,” a smile and a poop...
Living in Key West | 5 predictions for 2022
Well, my friends of Key West, here we are, smack on the cusp of a new year. If even legendary columnists, like Miami's Dave Barry, can't resist the temptation to write a year-ender, how much less so I? We write these things, not because we actually sport prescience greater than regular folks, but because we have ink, pixels and platforms demanding to be filled even when there's nothing going on....
Key West Christmas | Find your moment of peace amid the cacophony
Monday evening as I listened to the banter among my friends and one day after her birthday my baby sister died. We were as I recall just dipping into the deliciousness of Key West politics following a discussion of various flat breads when my phone buzzed silently with an incoming text.
By a two to one majority, Key West gave the go-ahead to pursuing a project that will put us on a path to stable, affordable homes for working families.Congrats Key West!
Yay!
Define affordable?
How is this down to a three person vote?
Who ever voted against it needs an attitude adjustment.
Carleena Smith Supp Lynne Mart
That’s great! It’s still really difficult to find affordable housing if you’re a single person, and don’t want roommates, any ideas for that?
I suggest everyone pay close attention to this going forward. I voted yes even though I was not comfortable with the lack of a specific plan. Let’s be sure these are at the lower end of “workforce housing” and not the higher end where a single person can make $107,000 a year and still qualify.
The rich have been trying to push the working class out for decades. They have succeeded, and they will continue to rule the island. There will never be affordable housing for the working class, ever!
I hope that it really is affordable. So many say affordable but, they are not
Yes. And maybe re-look at the design.
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“Key West is an amazing canvas”
Key West chef and photographer Martha Hubbard walks the island each morning. For years she has shared with her social media friends a photo or two to start the day. Now she shares her photographs exclusively with Key West Island News. From pounding waves off the White Street pier to a Royal Poinciana bursting red, Martha’s photos are a stunning reminder that we live in a canvas made new every day.
Shade Ceramics and Shutter Photography
Contemporary artisan ceramics and photographs crafted in Key West | Follow the latest news from our gallery! We love sharing what we’re doing in the White Street gallery — and we welcome you to stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.