Land developer Brian Tuttle is building one of the biggest projects ever attempted in the County of Sarasota. Here he explains the project and its pitfalls to the county commission who is meeting him for the first time.
Local columnist Ed Martin addresses council about Mike Miller's development in North Venice, gets tag-teamed by the mayor and Miller's attorney, Jeff Boone
VENICE FLORIDA 03/11/08 -- Public official gets caught covering for and allowing a business to violate the city's permitting process in a severe manner. Venice Florida! dot com's John Patten tells council about it but gets threatened with being "restrained" by Mayor Ed Martin -- can you say cover up?
Waterford developer Mike Miller's employees sent stealth letters to newspapers begging for a new Wal-Mart, one that their boss would be including in his new development project. Mike got busted.
Venice Florida City Council meeting of March 27, 2007. City Manager Marty Black discusses the procedure that will be used to decide who is going to build what at the Venice Municipal Airport.