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Sofia Artola, Margit FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2019 Sofia Artola, Margit Bisztray and Elena Devers Glow with Creativity at The Studios’ “First Thursday” Florida Keys 3-10 • Upper Keys 11-12 • What's Happening 13 • Real Estate 26 Photo: Guy DeBoer • Cover: JT Thompson LETTER TO THE EDITOR Government shutdown The Ship of State is off BY NEIL HOLLANDER over country. The parade of misfits on the left versus the panty waist Course ait ! What? Are we really crowd on the right. BY ROGER C. KOSTMAYER government shutdown, global warming, having this conversation? The Coast Guard doesn’t get W reasonable gun reforms or ripping asylum We are going to shut down the paid? WHAT? TSA sick leave sky hat the President tells the American seeking families apart that are reported to government of The United States rockets! WHAT? You mean the people, and doesn’t tell the Amer- be among the most urgent issues facing of America BECAUSE? Let’s step W same people who go through your ican people, in our annual State of the our nation and the globe. outside the box. Because POTUS luggage and moonlight as crack/ Union address, is critical to understanding Constitutional scholars will call the and most Americans want border cocaine distributors are calling in if our ship of state is on a proper course. 2019 SOTU presentation the “Constitu- security and the Democrats are sick for their day job? The list of what our President did not tional crisis speech” because Trump, like pissed that Hillary lost? Or some Man, I hope David Sudaris tell us is longer and more important than a mafia boss, threatened to prevent elect- derivative of that scenario? You is taking all this down. So 3000 most of what he did - and it begins with ed legislators from legislating if they pur- can’t make this stuff up folks. Ev- miles away I sit in my Northern the truths he did not tell. Fact checkers sued their Constitutional duty to oversee erybody knows we need a “wall.” California mountain retreat sur- documented why the President has no the executive branch. Think about that. The Democrats resist because? In rounded by the Uber Liberals of credibility, with examples like his false Think about the implications for any spite of our nation’s security and Silicon Valley wondering: Has the abortion claims. Stunningly, there was X Continued on page 8 safety they want to win. Power Left gone mad? n no mention of the catastrophic Trump FURNITURE • INTERIOR DESIGN • WINDOW TREATMENTS KITCHENS • BATHS • FLOORING Stunning design. KEY LARGO MARATHON KEY WEST Worry-free 305-451-5700 305-743-4397 305-295-6400 installation. 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So did “They [national media] will get the “It’s going to create an educational sys- Iwanted to make a Mother Jones, the liberal alternative message out that Key West, the three tem all over the city of Key West and the statement with the city newspaper, as did Fox News, the con- by five-mile island, is going to take a state of Florida and the United States,” commission’s ban on servative national media outlet. major step to help preserve our envi- she said. “I believe it’s our obligation.” sunscreen products con- Commissioner Jimmy Weekley, who ronment,” Weekley said. Perhaps not wanting other com- taining two ingredients thought to dam- sponsored the resolution and agreed to That they did. Mayor Teri Johnston munities or organizations to pre-empt age coral reefs, they succeeded wildly. an amendment pushing its start date was widely quoted in myriad news ar- Key West in efforts to be seen as pro- The 6-1 vote on Feb. 5 to ban the back by one year to Jan. 1, 2021, said ticles after the vote. But she had been tectors of the third largest barrier reef sale of all products containing oxyben- he had been contacted by multiple na- contacted prior to the vote, as well, in the world, stretching from Palm zone and/or octinoxate, used widely tional media organizations prior to the including a call from the president of Beach to the Dry Tortugas, Commis- in sunscreen, cosmetics and other per- Feb. 5 final vote approving the new the state Chamber of Commerce, who sioner Mary Lou Hoover pointed out sonal care products, garnered attention law, which prohibits the sale and dis- told her his organization has begun to that a similar ban bill has already been from a wide swath of national media, tribution of sun protection products, research the pros and cons of a state- filed in the Florida State Senate. including the Washington Post, Mi- including sunscreen and other cosmet- wide ban. Calling Key West’s debate a ami Herald, CNN, NCB News, New ics. 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Trashmore, the city’s landfill – but kept Kaufman’s Vol. 9 No. 59 X Continued from page 3 amendment to push the ban’s proposed start date PUBLISHER/EDITOR back one year to Jan. 1, 2021. The state of Hawaii Guy deBoer “We’re not going to be the first if we don’t act on earlier enacted a similar sunscreen ban, which will this tonight,” she said at the Feb. 5 meeting. take effect on the same date. NEWS WRITERS The lone dissenter to the ban was Commis- Sunscreen manufacturers and trade organizations Pru Sowers sioner Greg Davila, who said his earlier concerns representing them had sent representatives to Key Terry Schmida remained intact for the second and final vote on West to speak against the ban. Carlos Gutierrez, vice PHOTOGRAPHERS the ban. He said he would support efforts to stop president of state and local affairs for the Consum- Larry E. Blackburn, Ralph De Palma swimmers, snorkelers and scuba divers from using er Healthcare Products Association, a Washington, sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate D.C.-based group representing manufacturers of DESIGN when they go into the water, but was worried that over-the-counter medications including sunscreen, Nand K. Pandey, [email protected] preventing non-swimmers from choosing the best said skin cancer rates are rising despite the thou- sunscreen for themselves and their families would sands of brands of sunscreen available. And he was PIXEL WRANGLER lead to higher incidences of skin cancer. dismissive of at least one sunscreen alternative, that JT Thompson “The issue is if somebody is wearing sunscreen in of wearing long-sleeved shirts and other clothing their yard in the city of Key West, is that hurting the cover-ups in lieu of sunscreen. CONTRIBUTORS coral? I can’t make that logical connection,” Davila “Folks that are coming to Key West as tourists, Jeff Johnson & said. “And we’re talking about law that we’re making Paula Forman I challenge you to get them to come all the way Short Answers here and we’re not giving our residents the freedom down to Key West to put on more clothing,” Guti- Ian Brockway to choose which sunscreens they want to use.” errez said. “So, we see it as the best sunscreen is a Tropic Sprockets Commissioner Sam Kaufman had attempted sunscreen you will use.” Tammy Fox-Royer Florida Keys SPCA to craft a compromise that would address Davila’s Commissioner Weekley acknowledged that sun- Sylvia Bogart concerns with other commissioners’ desire to help screen products containing oxybenzone and octi- Astrologically Yours protect the health of the reef. He proposed sending noxate are not the only cause of coral bleaching Joanna Brady the issue to the city Sustainability Advisory Board, and reef reproductive problems. But it’s the city’s Reviewer giving it a year to research the issue and report back. responsibility to do what it can, he said. INTERN However, commissioners rejected the idea of put- “There are thousands and thousands of alterna- Divya Navani ting another huge project on the SAB’s shoulders tive sunscreens [without oxybenzone and octinox- – it was recently tasked with looking at alternative ate] that can be used. But we only have one reef,” ADVERTISING and environmentally-sound ways to repurpose Mt. Weekley said.
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