Smoked Mullet, Cold Beer, Hot Women, Surging Sturgeons & More Await In Cedar Key

I knew I was really going to like Cedar Key, when local oysterman Mike Davis, who was perched on a bar stool opposite me at the funky waterfront Tiki Bar, revealed the secret of happiness the way Tom T. Hall wrote songs: “A smoked mullet, a cold beer, and a hot woman.”
Consumer Reports Rips Imported Shrimp; Says U.S. Wild Caught Tastiest and Safest

The June 2015 issue of Consumer Reports contains a revealing seven-page special report confirming what most of us living on or near Amelia Island already know about the delights of eating fresh wild-caught shrimp and the dangers and foulness of the imported and farm raised rubbish.
Florida Times-Union Columnist Dismisses Jacksonville’s Soaring Crime As “Venting”

Just when I thought the Jacksonville-based Florida Times-Union newspaper had reached its limit of absurdity with its massive nonstop coverage of that city’s three-victory NFL football team, which hasn’t played a game in almost six months, along comes FTU editorial columnist Tonyaa Weathersbee with outrageous excuses for that city’s mindless violence and crime.
Alcoholics, Drug Addicts & A Sex Offender Straining An Island Neighborhood’s Patience

Suppose as many as 24 people, whose objective was to shake alcohol and drug addiction, jammed themselves into the four-bedroom house next to you? And suppose the owner of the house was a registered sex offender? Would any of this concern you?
Fernandina City Manager On Hot Seat After Verbal Flogging By Two Commissioners

Mexico couldn’t hold a candle to the goings on at the May 5 Fernandina Beach City Commission session as not even a drunken Cinco de Mayo celebration could have topped the fireworks inside City Hall this past Tuesday evening, May 5.