Update: The County Commission passed the ordinance at its meeting on June 23rd. Here’s the pdf of the agenda item: [gview file=”https://westbocanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/4C.pdf”] The Palm Beach County Commission is getting closer to an ordinance that would ban panhandlers and others from standing in roadway medians. On the agenda for May 19th is a “preliminary reading” of…
Results are in for the 2014 election and showed victory for incumbents and insiders. The most local of the races affecting West Boca was County Commission District 4, which is east of the Turnpike. Incumbent Steven Abrams (R) won the race handily with 59% of the vote over Andy O’Brien (D). Unfortunately that does not…
Temple Beth El of Boca Raton hosted a candidate forum Tuesday. Numerous candidates appeared and answered questions, including all in the above photo and more. The author of this article was on the committee that set up the forum, planned the questions, and also served on the panel that asked the questions. Election Day is…
Update: Commissioner Abrams did respond, briefly. See bottom of the article. After three attempts we’ve still received no response from Commissioner Abrams and Berger on the panhandling issue in West Boca and the rest of unincorporated Palm Beach County. Today we sent an e-mail to Andy O’Brien, who is challenging Abrams in the current election…
Update: At bottom we’ve posted a federal case that upheld Pembroke Pines’ ordinance against panhandling and similar behavior. In our recent article on panhandlers, a lot of readers have asked why we don’t see them in the city of Boca Raton. The city adopted specific ordinances to deal with the problem, and not just panhandlers….
