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The Keys Weekly wants Monroe County voters to get to know the candidates who seek to represent them at all levels of city and county government. To that end, we’ve asked each candidate in the District 2 county commission race to answer the eight questions below in 500 words. Although each of the five county

“Haiti is not home for me anymore,” said a Key West Uber driver who we’ll call Jean. “I came to Key West in 2016 because Haiti was very dangerous, very poor. And now it’s worse. I don’t know what will happen. We don’t know.” Jean is one of about 330,000 Haitian nationals in the United

A new budget season in Islamorada is seeing increased property valuations, more costs and a decision over how much to tax village property owners for services.  At a July 7 meeting, village council members unanimously approved a preliminary property tax rate of 2.8 mills, or $280 per $100,000 of a property’s assessed value. The approval

What do Key West and the Strait of Hormuz have in common? The Bubba Awards, of course. It’s true, I’m serious.  Every year, we get a software “heat map” that shows clusters of where engagement came from.  In the past, we’ve had participation from every continent except Antarctica and this year, we had votes cast

Under a cloudy break from the brutal summer sun, young skippers caught the wind in the waters off Marathon on July 11 for the Middle Keys Sailing’s annual Mixer in the Middle Regatta.  Featuring sailors ages 7 to 18 from Key Largo to Key West, the day’s races invited four classes of sailboats to navigate