Venice Beach Erosion Plan Faces Uncertain Future
Ed Redington proposes permanent stone breakwaters to halt sand loss near Venice Fishing Pier with renourishment from inland sand. The plan, reviewed by the DEA DNR and Army Corps of Engineers, contrasts with past failures like dogbone grains seawalls and praises the Makepeace Wood crib jetty approach as a potential tested solution.
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Venice
State Department of Environmental Regulation
Department of Natural Resources
Ed Redington
Deerfield Beach
Fla
DEA
DNR
U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers
Redington
Sidney Makepeace
Manatee County
Out of touch Venice sewer plant debate prompts letter
In 1970 Venice faced a bid of 1.4 million to upgrade the gulffront sewer plant near the air base. Critics urge relocation to a east side 40 acre tract, warning that current plans could waste up to millions on erosion control. A reader questions city decisions and cites a sprinkler system and airport land issues.
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Venice City Council
Gulffront
Venice Taxpayers League
Clark Road
Finn W. Caspersen
Light finally shines on city sewer plan disaster
A local correspondent criticizes the city for an expensive and unnecessary sewage treatment project. The writer argues funds should have funded a plant east of the city and questions the value of breakwaters to save an aging system. Beach erosion at Gulf Shores has progressed over 90 feet since prior observations.
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Proctor
Gulf __ Shores
Pre Season Blues Signal Football Uproar and Family Bond
A witty column notes the annual pre season football itch and how it stirs nerves and joy alike. It contrasts genders and habits, praises shared game nights, and humorously warns that exclamations about players may spark spousal rebuke. Franco Harris is mentioned.
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Charlie
Arrested as spies and linked to wartime surplus scheme
A postwar account places Nat Klein and another officer in Brussels with the Foreign Economies Administration seen as a cover for intelligence work. The operation reportedly oversaw a huge war surplus sale while officers vetted foreign officers at FEA headquarters and sold surplus trucks only to certain nations.
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Nat Klein
Foreign Economies Administration
Brussels
Belgium
Europe
FEA
Nat
Defining Liberal and Conservative Through Street Definitions
A writer debates what liberal and conservative mean in practice, using Santa Monica and San Francisco growth control cases as examples. He compares municipal ordinances on parks housing and impact fees to illustrate how labels shift by place and viewpoint, leaving no universal street definition.
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60 Minutes
Santa Monica
Calif
Peoples’ Republic of
Peoples’ Republic
California
San Francisco
Frisco
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