Tag: Tony Kennon
Rauf Bolden: How to run for Mayor and Council in Orange...
Getting elected Mayor or to the City Council in 2020 is simple.
Campaign on a platform to eliminate the 4-mil property tax, giving residents a...
Rauf Bolden: Reflecting upon the midterm results in Orange Beach
Midterm reflects the election cycle. The middle of Mayor Tony Kennon’s term (2016-2018) saw one-third of the Orange Beach City Council try to leave,...
Rauf Bolden: Call for purchasing a public beach in Orange Beach
Buying beachfront property for the greater good of Orange Beach residents is not in sync with local government’s views of spending money without a...
Rauf Bolden: School delay in Orange Beach begs question – should...
Leaving people clutching their pearls, Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon announced another delay. The cost of building the new school was bid $20 million...
Rauf Bolden: Bridge2NoWhere in Orange Beach
Joe Emerson is a man of action. He made an activist’s move over three years ago, establishing a Facebook Group, presently having 2660+ members...
Rauf Bolden: Lodging tax and the building boom
Houses and condos are being built in Orange Beach at an incredible rate. Biking down the beach road always turns up signs of new...
Rauf Bolden: Building retail spaces as an economic driver in Orange...
“Economic dislocations and limited upward social mobility are eroding communities and fueling resurgent nationalism,” reported Maura Reynolds in POLITICO.
Political fragmentation is not something we...
Rauf Bolden: Call for establishing an Ethics Commission in Orange Beach
People rub their eyes at the prospect, having $87 Million on the table for one bridge and $60 Million on the table for another,...
Rauf Bolden: Vanishing property rights in Orange Beach
Power corrupts goes the old saying. Taking away residents' property rights is the new infatuation, firstly with short-term rentals in residential areas, lastly with...
Orange Beach breaks ground on new high school
Over 200 city, county, school officials and members of the community attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Orange Beach Middle/High school on Friday.
The...