Sheriff Alfonzo Williams is willing to spend thousands of taxpayers’ dollars in legal fees to get the budget he says his department needs to operate efficiently. In a September 12 letter addressed to the Board of Commissioners, Attorney Kellye C. Moore informed the panel that Sheriff Alfonzo retained her to represent him in an ongoing
In 2019, spaceport opponents began collecting signatures. By December 2021, after the county had spent more than $10 million on the spaceport plan, petitioners reached their 10% goal, leading to a March 2022 referendum that blocked the plan. Now the state's high court is set to determine whether the vote will stick.