Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

Greetings from Key West

By

Our favorite oyster bar and lunch spot in old town Key West is the Thirsty Mermaid. The #1 oyster supplier in America, Skip Batten, is their oyster supplier. Today, Debbie and I had—flown directly from Skip—Skip’s Petit and Aunt Dotty oysters! Both are harvested in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and are outstanding. Enjoy, Dick & Debbie

Key West’s Committee for Safer, Cleaner Ships Leads America

By

Vote YES. The bane of big cruise ships is that they are the grand polluters of safe, clean harbors. They also are the master spreaders of CORONA. No one is doing more to send these befouling monsters of the seas out of town for good than my friend Arlo Haskell and his crusaders at Committee […]

Key West, a Small Business Development Innovator

By

In the Key West Citizen, Pru Sowers explains the fast-growing Key West Mom & Pop’s group, writing: Key West Mom & Pop’s is the brainchild of Paul Menta, owner of the Hemingway Rum Company, maker of Papa’s Pilar Rum, and Mark Gambuzza, ( disclaimer : Mark is a good friend of mine) owner-operator of Uva […]

America’s New National Past Times

By

Like thousands of my readers, I have quit watching professional sports: NFL, NBA, and MLB. Also gone from “the daily rotation,” are cable TV, the NYT (Boston Globe, Washington Post included), Google search, and now Amazon! That’s right, no more Amazon for me, and undoubtedly for many of you. After all, what sort of constitutionally-strong […]

Coming: Key West & Bar Harbor Cruise Ships Crackdown

By

Despite cruise lines offering very restrictive plans of virus mitigation to ports of call, coastal towns are making the decision to ban cruise ships from docking in their harbors in 2020. Bar Harbor, Maine is the latest town to say no to big cruise ships. Cruise Industry News reports: Bar Harbor, Maine, has decided it […]

Welcome back to the Florida Keys

By

Timothy O’Hara writes in the Keys News: Monroe County plans to reopen to visitors June 1 by suspending the checkpoints on U.S. 1 and State Road 905 and allowing lodging establishments to take guests at 50 percent occupancy, Monroe County government officials said Sunday. Monroe County lodging establishments, like hotels, campgrounds, vacation rentals, and other […]

Key West: Smart, Safe and Secure

By

A brief from Monroe County, Florida’s COVID-19 information site on how Key West’s airport is being run during the pandemic response. Will airports remain open? What’s Monroe County doing to protect our residents? KEY WEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Until further notice, all arriving passengers regardless of origination will be screened at Key West International and Marathon […]

Key Westers Unite to Ban Harbor-Poisoning Cruise Ships

By

A wide array of local celebrities, dignitaries, arts supporters, historians, and economists have teamed up to vote the cruise ships out of Key West permanently. Here is a look at the tragedy of the cruise ship industry on a small natural harbor like Key West. ABC Tourism informs readers: The popularity of Cruise ship holidays is […]

Florida Keys Monroe County Coronavirus Report

By

Michelle Marchante and Devoun Cetoute report in the Miami Herald: The latest update from the State Health Office regarding COVID-19. Monroe County is reporting 66 total cases — 60 are residents, 6 are non-residents. Among the 66, 22 are travel-related, 28 are community-acquired, and 16 are currently being investigated. Of the 60 residents, 31 are […]