In the spring of 1971 I traveled to Tallahassee as attorney for the Polk County delegation for the Legislative Session. At the time I was wide-eyed and intent on following in the footsteps of great granddad Dr. Snow, my Dad (Snow Martin), and great uncle Stephen P. Mallory, for whom a square is named in […]
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Honesty is a key component in a successful attorney-client relationship. There is a difference between honesty and accuracy when it comes to reviewing testimony, especially with eyewitness testimony. If there is a car accident and there are five eyewitnesses, you will hear five different versions of what happened. Witnesses will see different models of the
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To farm or not to farm? It’s a question of costs versus profits. Florida’s Green Belt Law allows agriculture to use land whose property tax is a fraction of real market value. The removal of the benefit could be the difference between profit and loss. Some net profit margins per acre are as low as
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On a sunny March 23 last, a crowd of folks who support the youth of Florida drove the winding Firehouse Road to the FFA Training Center in eastern Polk County. [emember_protected custom_msg=”Click here and register now to read the rest of the article!”] Each year, young people from FFA chapters statewide converge at the training
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The weeds infesting the field made for slow walking. The torn plastic on the raised soil beds that once bore a bumper crop now hosted decaying leaves and rotted remains of fruit. [emember_protected custom_msg=”Click here and register now to read the rest of the article!”] “What do we do?” She said. “We did everything IFAS
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