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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
CCSO Responds to Suspicious
Real Estate Today
Incident at Crystal River Power Plant
A Guest Commentary by Darryl Diamond
Impact study for south Levy County
are not mentioned, and essen-
The Sheriff's Office responded out to Progress Energy's Crystal River plant this morning
tially "do not even exist", so I
In my capacity as a public servant on
around 9 a.m. ref: a suspicious incident. A worker's toolbox appeared to have smoke coming
guess he infers that there will
the Inglis Town Planning commission, I have
from it. The owner of the toolbox was located, and he could think of nothing in the box that
be no impact on us. Yikes! Well
been looking for years for an impact study as
could emit smoke. The box was locked, and he had the key.
anyway, I have been searching
it pertains to the potential growth in, and
The CCSO called out its Bomb Unit as a precautionary measure, and the immediate area
for some time for hard data from
around our Town. A study dated July 10,2007
was cordoned off and cleared of personnel.
an expert such as Dr. Fishkind
was presented to the county as part of the
The box -- about 3 feet long, 2 feet wide and 1 foot tall -- was moved away and safely
on how many additional police will be re-
Land use change for the Progress energy
imploded, with nothing suspicious revealed. The possible culprit may have been an aerosol
quired, how many additional firefighters will
power plant. This Florida Fiscal Impact Analy-
can of oil lubricant routinely used. The scene was cleared by 2:30 p.m., and a normal routine
be required, and when will we hit the thresh-
sis Model (FIAM) prepared by Dr. Hank
ensued.
old for the new south Levy county high
Fishkind is supposed to "estimate the costs
school all during the approx. 10 year construc-
Squawk Box
and revenues to local governments".
- Continued from page 1
tion period.
The first thing you notice is what
I want to know if progress energy is
most of us already know from our neighbor’s
But this is a column. In this column, we are allowed to use Journalese. We can write in
paying for these extra municipal workers dur-
just to the south in Citrus county. This is the
Gobbledygook. This is a no-holds barred open forum and always has been. Look elsewhere in
ing the 10 year construction period? Lord
fact that Levy county stands to be in great
this paper and you'll notice there is no "letters to the editor". Because The Newscaster has the
knows the town does not have the extra
shape from tax revenue from the plant when it
Squawkbox!
money. I am going to ask the new Mayor of
is completed in about 9-10 years from now. In
So, gentle readers, I make no apologies. I am actually listed most of the time on the
Inglis to contact the county commission to
addition, Dr. Fishkind’s report shows that
Masthead as 'photojournalist' anyway. I'm not supposed to wow you with my gift of written
simply inform us in the future when important
during construction we can expect 3,000 jobs
word, my job is to make you pick up the paper out of the rack because of my beautiful and
issues, such as this report that may heavily
created, 1,200 indirect construction jobs, 500
captivating photography (ahem... *wink) that graces the cover. This paper's Gatekeeper (also
impact us, are on the county agenda. I will be
onsite permanent jobs, and 761 indirect per-
listed up there on the top somewhere) let's me spew my mind without Advocacy of any kind
happy to e-mail a copy of this impact report
manent jobs. The problem I have with this
whatsoever just like he would do for you or your neighbor. Don't like the flavor of my writ-
to any interested party at no charge.
report is that it does not address the "local
ing.... this space is available! We don't allow personal attacks, limit your Squawk to 500 words,
darryldiamond@earthlink.net  I’ll see you
government cost impact" on Inglis or Yan-
and we reserve the right to edit your 'non-journalistic' grammar.
around "The Campus".
keetown. As per this report these two towns
Hrmmm.... I think that was a pretty good slant! Now to finish up with the jump line...
To email us YOUR Squawk, email with your name, address and phone number for verification.
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