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By Steve Plunkett 

    Boca Raton will not send money to pay for the inspector general until a lawsuit by it and 13 other municipalities is resolved challenging how the office is funded. 

    The cities filed suit two years ago saying the county’s pr

By Steve Plunkett

    A months-long campaign of phone calls, emails and other gentle arm-twisting yielded a last-minute budget success for the Downtown Library: $60,000 for a new program services position.

    Deputy Mayor Susan Haynie proposed addin

By Steve Plunkett

    Work on a fifth “view window” along State Road A1A will soon give landlubbers — especially those in the Yacht & Racquet Club of Boca Raton — a better look at the Atlantic.

    The Yacht & Racquet condo association will trim sea

By Steve Plunkett

    The city’s workers are now protected against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, just like their counterparts in Palm Beach County government, the town of Palm Beach and Wal-Mart stores

    Attention, developers: If you can build a “signature restaurant” with “significant public space” at the former Wildflower site, the city wants your plans.

    City officials issued a “request for lease proposals” Sept. 13 for the 2.3 acres that o

By Steve Plunkett 

    Ground hasn’t been broken yet, but the long-awaited Interstate 95 interchange on Spanish River Boulevard already has attracted development that someday will generate 13,300 trips per day. 

    Boca Raton City Council members ap

By Steve Plunkett

    Domestic partners of city workers may receive even better benefits than their counterparts in Wellington.

    City Attorney Diana Grub Frieser reported Aug. 26 on how City Council members could add sexual orientation and gender

By Steve Plunkett 

    One of the first things the Boca Raton City Council may consider when it returns from its summer break Aug. 26 is whether to offer health insurance and other benefits to same-sex partners of city employees. 

    Council member

By Steve Plunkett 

    The city has bailed out the Boca Raton Children’s Museum with an emergency $127,000 grant. 

    The museum appealed to the city for help when it realized it was running out of money, Assistant City Manager Mike Woika said. 

By Steve Plunkett
    The City Council quickly disposed of $5,600 in questions the county Office of the Inspector General raised in an audit of city expenses.
    Council members voted unanimously that buying food for its three-day goal-setting session

By Tim Pallesen

     Boca Raton’s centerpiece for downtown redevelopment, as city leaders call it, starts construction this fall.
    Archstone won City Council approval March 11 to build 378 apartments in the heart of what city leaders hope will becom

At 17, Tyler Morrison is proudly out and doing something to ensure equality
for all in Boca Raton, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
He was recently appointed to the city’s Community Relations Board. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star

By Margie Plunkett

The Boca Raton City Council approved a measure to create a planned mobility district in the vicinity including the former IBM campus, but not before hearing from residents and developers who packed the chambers in a meeting that s

By Steve Plunkett

The City Council may decide what restaurant goes on the former Wildflower site as soon as October.

The city plans to issue a request for proposals for the 2.25-acre Intracoastal Waterway parcel in mid-June, Deputy City Manager Geor

Candidates for Seat D on the City Council are running for a three-year term. A March 27 runoff will be held in the event of a tie. Constance Scott won a second two-year term to Seat C after challenger Bill Trinka, a retired firefighter, dropped out.

By Steve Plunkett

City Council Member Constance Scott was effectively reelected Jan. 25 when challenger Bill Trinka officially quit the race just two weeks after filing to run.

‘’After deep personal reflection I am suspending my campaign for City Cou