Uber drivers are rumored to come down from Miami, speak little English, sleep in their cars, and are totally unfamiliar with Key West’s Old Town street patterns, using GPS to get around our one-square-mile Old Town. No thanks, Uber. Go Local: Call Five 6’s Key West taxi service (305-296-1800), Old Town’s reliable favorite for the […]

Residents of Key West continue the fight against the cruise ship industry in an effort to protect their water and economy. Now the Key West Committee for Safer Cleaner Ships is raising the alarm over a new proposed agreement between the city and the Pier B Development Corporation. They write: Friends: As we wrote yesterday, the […]

After you touch down at Key West International Airport, head to Five Brothers in Old Town and pick up a Cuban mix sandwich for your group. I have been going to Five Brothers since Pepe began working there with his dad, three decades ago. Just yesterday at Five Brothers, I was happy to learn that […]

Residents of Key West can be happy today that Carnival Cruise Lines has dropped service to the town. Key West voters have had it with the pollution created by cruise ships like Carnival’s and voted them out. It’s been so much better since. Fran Golden reports in Cruise Critic: Carnival Cruise Line notified travel agents […]

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The Key West Committee for Safer Cleaner Ships is calling on Gov. Ron DeSantis to protect Florida’s coral and clean water by vetoing SB1194. The committee writes: Good morning: The Florida Keys are home to some of the rarest corals in the world, including Staghorn, Elkhorn, and Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), which in 2013 was proposed […]

The Miami Herald’s Mary Ellen Klas reports on the continued assault on Key West’s home rule, writing: A day after citizens of Key West thought the legislation aimed at overturning their vote to limit cruise ship traffic appeared dead, Republican legislative leaders quickly reversed course Wednesday and powered it past Democrats to send it to […]

Mary Ellen Klas reports in the Bradenton Herald that a bill aimed at overturning Key West voters’ choice to limit cruise ships in their port has been killed in the Florida State House. She writes (abridged): TALLAHASSEE After having second thoughts about the constitutionality of his bill to undermine three ordinances approved by Key West […]