Are more and more non-white: “What I see among Millennials are African Americans, and Asians Americans, and Latinos who are vibrantly growing in faith and leading the future of what the church will become,” says Gray. About a third of young (18-29 year old) Americans — and more than half of younger Christians — are …
When the Government Denies You Serving Sunday Brunch
In Palm Beach, where else: Harvey Oyer, attorney for Del Frisco’s Grille: Royal Poinciana Plaza restaurant originally wanted to serve Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch. Council approved Saturday lunch service, asked restaurant to meet conditions to open: No live music, approved operating hours, priority reservation system for residents, no happy hour, refuse stored indoors, employee …
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What Works at the Top Doesn't Always Work at the Bottom
In this case, the legalisation of marijuana, according to Rod Dreher: Opponents of marijuana among the elites are those who have maintained enough contact with Middle America — David “Bobos in Paradise” Brooks has this all over his résumé! — to realize that the experiences of élite urban Americans can’t be extended to all America …
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The One Percent Prepares for the Worst: Palm Beach Police's Humvee
The Town of Palm Beach has acquired a military-surplus Humvee: It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon outside the Palm Beach Police Department. Quiet, that is, until Sgt. Scott Duquette starts up one of the department’s newest acquisitions — a 2001 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, commonly known as a Humvee. Anyone who has any doubts about …
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Going Underground With Electrics, the Palm Beach Way
Like everyone else, it's slow: Deputy Town Manager Tom Bradford brightened Tuesday’s meeting of the Town Council’s Ordinances, Rules and Standards Committee with news that North End residents have inundated the town with requests to have power, cable and phone lines buried on their respective streets. Their interest appears to have been sparked by two …
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Oh, Yes, the 1% (And Then Some) Should Give Back
Harry Binswanger doesn't think so: It’s time to gore another collectivist sacred cow. This time it’s the popular idea that the successful are obliged to “give back to the community.” That oft-heard claim assumes that the wealth of high-earners is taken away from “the community.” And beneath that lies the perverted Marxist notion that wealth …
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The Tasteless Nouveaux Riches Take Over Harvard B-School
And no one else is happy with it either: When Christina Wallace, now the director of the Startup Institute, attended Harvard Business School on a scholarship, she was told by her classmates that she needed to spend more money to fully participate, and that “the difference between a good experience and a great experience is …
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The Provincial Boors Get Their Comeuppance
Or more properly the (Alexander) Boot: What comes naturally to most Americans is ‘the pursuit of happiness’ stipulated in their founding document – not the pursuit of beauty or, God forbid, the truth. This has produced the happiest society in the West, and also the least Western. There’s a price to pay for secularism, and …
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Global Citizen. Really?
It's the goal of @pbenedictii, the new Headmaster of my old Episcopal prep school, St. Andrew's in Boca Raton: Q. What would you say is your priority? A. We have to prepare our students to be global citizens and will change the curriculum to understand that citizenship. Meanwhile across town we have the blog of …
When It's Easier to Demolish Your House Than to Make the Code Police Happy
In Palm Beach, where else: Two new residences will be going up while five old residences will be coming down, as approved Wednesday by the Architectural Commission...264 Bahama Lane: Owner Karl Wattenhofer is demolishing his house to cure a code-enforcement violation for unapproved window changes. He currently has fines that total more than $74,000. For …
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