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Read It in the Morning Paper: Unemployment, Monument, Strader
UNEMPLOYMENT in Polk dropped to 5% in September from 5.6% the previous month and 7.8% last September. Florida’s unemployment rate is 4.9%, and the national rate is 4.8% | Detailed Florida numbers MONUMENT: After failing to persuade federal district and appeals courts that the city of Lakeland erred in relocating a Confederate monument from the […]
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Confederate Monument Move Appeal Heard by Federal Judges
Lakeland’s Confederate monument was moved from Munn Park to Veterans Park more than a year ago, but the legal battle over the move is still being fought in federal court. Organizations that opposed the move went to court last year to have the 110-year-old monument returned on free-speech grounds; a federal judge dismissed the case, […]
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Monument Move Came in $40k Under Budget
The city of Lakeland tallied the cost of moving the Confederate monument from Munn Park to Veterans Park at about $185,000, which was about $40,000 less than anticipated. The largest part went to the Tampa moving contractor, whose $165k payment was $15k higher than the original estimate because they ended up engineering and constructing a […]
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Surprises Greeted Munn Park Monument Workers
Workers in Munn Park got two surprises as they removed the Confederate monument that’s being reconstructed in Veterans Park: It wasn’t held together nearly as well as they thought it would be. “They were surprised that with hurricanes (during the last 109 years), the monument made it through,” City Manager Tony Delgado said. A 34-year-old […]
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Monument Move Update: Scaffold Goes Up Next Week
Scaffolding will go up around the Confederate Monument in Munn Park the middle of next week as city workers continue preparations to move it to Veterans Park, City Manager Tony Delgado told commissioners Friday.
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City Commission: Resume Confederate Monument Move
With a federal court challenge behind them, the Lakeland City Commission today directed City Manager Tony Delgado to proceed with plans to move a 109-year-old Confederate monument from the center of Munn Park downtown to its new home, a gentle slope overlooking Veterans Park and Lake Beulah.
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Breaking News: Confederate Monument Lawsuit Dismissed
The suit trying to stop the moving of the Confederate statue has been dismissed. The United States District Court has dismissed the lawsuit with an 18-page report reprinted below. Previous LkldNow coverage of the lawsuit. LkldNow will have a report on the story later today.
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Lawsuit Slows Planning to Move Confederate Monument
A lawsuit is slowing, but not halting, preparations to move Lakeland’s Confederate monument from Munn Park to Veterans Park, City Attorney Tim McCausland told city commissioners this morning.
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Southern Heritage Group Sues to Halt Monument Move
Save Southern Heritage, an organization that has been a vocal advocate for keeping the Confederate monument in Munn Park, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to keep the city of Lakeland from moving the 108-year-old memorial to Veterans Park.