West Boca News invites all Boca Raton City candidates, in contested races, to submit an article about their campaign. 1000 words or less please. West Boca News has a large and growing audience. While most of our readers are west of the city line, we do have substantial readership within the city as well. We…
West Boca News went to the Venezuela rally today on Glades Road across from the FAU main entrance. We interviewed several people. Videos are below, with more photos at the bottom. We estimate there were more than 200 people in the demonstration by the time we left around 5:30 pm. The event was still growing…
West Boca News received a press release for a protest that will be held at FAU tomorrow, Tuesday February 18th. Some highlights of the release are below in italics with our comments in regular text: Today, February 17, 2014, a group of over 100 Venezuelan and non-Venezuelan nationals gathered at the intersection of Glades Road…
This afternoon dozens of West Boca residents gathered on the southwest corner of 441 and Glades in a demonstration related to the current unrest in Venezuela. Large demonstrations began in Miami roughly four days ago, covered yesterday by NBC Miami. Certain areas of South Florida are known for having large Venezuelan populations, especially Weston (jokingly…
Courtney Gale writes to us about problems with transit in Palm Beach County for persons with disabilities. Here, with our edits, is an e-mail and then a more formal article: E-mail I am disabled, so I use Palm Tran’s door-to-door service. I have been having problems with them for years: Many drivers are late even…
