Bloggers vs. Journalists and Monroe's Short Term Rental Plague Continues

Part one of our two-part coverage of the latest Town of Monroe Board meeting train wreck.

There’s a lot happening in the Town and Village of Monroe right now. Today, we’re going to focus specifically on last week’s Town Board meeting, held on Monday, June 3rd.

I’m going to split this post into two parts today.

This is because I think I can cover the Short Term Rental applicants (13 Ruby Road, 21 Front Street, 649 Lakes, 8 Keith Lane, ect.) in one post.

Then, in the follow-up post, we’ll cover the WTBQ invoice situation (again.)

Before we get into it, I just want to flag something for you:

There seems to be some confusion, caused mostly by bad faith actors like Mr. Wayne Corts and friends — including the wife of Wayne’s fellow defendant above, Teresa Schaeffer — about whether or not yours truly is a blogger or a journalist.

This is not the first time (I’ve been told) this has come up. Recently there was a meeting of environmentally inclined residents. One of them wanted to invite me to an upcoming Zoom, and then they were told I’m not a reporter.

So I’m going to address this rea…