MARK SCHUMANN
On May 19, the Florida Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision effectively ending the Indian River County Commission’s effort to force Vero Electric to abandon its customers outside the city limits of Vero Beach.
The Supreme Court’s ruling was issued a full five days before the May 26 issue of island weekly, Vero Beach 32963, went to press. Despite having had ample time to prepare a story, the newspaper failed to report what can only be seen as a devastating setback to both the County, and ultimately to the Indian River Shores Town Council. Had Florida’s highest court sided with the County Commission, the story would almost surely have dominated 32963’s front page.
From its launch in late 2008, the island weekly, whose publisher lives in Indian River Shores, has made its mark attaching Vero Beach.
Like the Press Journal, the island weekly has also failed to inform its readers of Florida Power & Light’s proposed $1.337 billion rate increase.
The two local newspapers have also avoided reporting on the mounting cost of Indian River Shores’ legal battle with Vero Beach. To date, the Town has spent nearly $1 million on high-priced attorneys. Town leaders are now looking at selling off public land to help pay mounting legal bills.
Indian River Guardian 
Wait a second I hear a noise. Oh yeah, it’s the flushing sound of a toilet. Thanks Bob Solari for voting to throw millions of our tax dollars down the toilet suing Vero Beach Electric. I hope that the county voters and especially the city voters do not vote to reelect this “FISCAL CONSEVATIVE” back on the county commission. And of course us city voters had to pay both sides of the attorney fees for Solari’s vote to have us sue ourselves. One more small thing would it not have been nice to cut the electric rates by the amount of all these millions of dollars of attorney fees.
Why just blame Solari he had plenty of help and the votes of the rest of the commissioners. Tim Zorc ,for one, also voted to sue the city. The only recourse we have is to see that they are not re-elected. They wasted our money and should be held accountable.
The Vero Press Journal should have changed its name long ago. The focus has been on the counties to our South.