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Understanding the Brevard Dichotomy
Glenda Carlin Busick's "Brevard Good Ole Boys" is an essential book for understanding how Florida's "Space Coast" - home to the Kennedy Space Center - can simultaneously be the most backward and forward county in the state, perhaps even the nation.Despite frequent mentions of Gannett's Florida Today's disinterest in the blatant financial wrongdoing she so carefully documents, Ms. Busick failed to note that it was the reason her book was necessary.Expecting voters to know to cast ballots against those involved in inappropriate official behaviors without the local newspaper ever reporting them is like expecting the fire department to show up to extinguish an inferno when no one has sounded one alarm, let alone four.Attorneys, authors and filmmakers can use "Brevard Good Ole Boys" for background material on civil servants involved in the county's copious malicious prosecutions, which Florida Today also found unsuitable for print until DNA exonerations recently forced their hand. ... Read more