09 Oct

Posted at 15:17h in Blog, Boca Raton News
I have been collecting people's email addresses for around a year now, letting you all opt-in. Almost 100 people from all over Boca have given me their addresses and let me know what communities you all call home. This is really cool. I appreciate being let known that you're visiting the site and finding the information here to be valuable to you.

03 Oct

Posted at 10:27h in Blog, Boca Raton News, Education

How can Boca parents keep kids* informed about the changing world around them? 4boca.com has aggregated news headlines relevant specifically to the people of Boca Raton, updated daily. These headlines are on the home page, organized by location: Boca Raton, Florida, USA, the Internet and the...

15 Jul

Posted at 11:14h in Blog, Boca Raton News
I've been aggregating news here on 4boca.com by automatic, manual and now pseudo-automatic technology. Visitors have noted how some links point to sites that are paywalled, like the Sun-Sentinel and Palm Beach Post. It's annoying to be linked to a story that you can't read. I understand. I get annoyed by this too. I'm making an intentional effort to avoid doing this moving forward.

19 Dec

Posted at 11:18h in Blog, Boca Raton News, Community

After many months and a special election the City has released the conclusions and plans derived from community input around the re-zoning of Boca's Midtown area. Surprisingly, in spite of the visioning session seemingly being restricted to discussing plans that allowed re-zoning, the conclusions derived from it involve no new residential allowances at all. 

06 Dec

Posted at 10:24h in Blog, Boca Raton News

4boca.com has an awesome new business directory exclusively for Boca. Getting listed is easy, fast, and involves no obligation. If you've got a business in Boca it's free to you. Click here to enter your business listing for FREE. Getting attention for your business is Boca Raton isn't...

20 Sep

Posted at 23:41h in Blog, Boca Raton News

aggregator def: a website or program that collects related items of content and displays them or links to them. 4boca.com is the news aggregator for Boca Raton, Florida. Boca Raton has many news sources online now. All of them are competing for YOUR attention, but visiting each...

02 Sep

Posted at 22:27h in Blog, Boca Raton News

The TL;DR is I'm giving up my role as Editor for BocaWatch and focusing on local issues back here again on 4boca.com. Since April this site has been relatively quiet. Instead of putting time into this site I was filling the role of Editor for BocaWatch.org....

27 Feb

Posted at 13:01h in Blog, Boca Raton News, Community, Education
There's something that local parents need to know about the Parkland school shooting: the security cameras at the high school were not showing the cops who arrived a live feed. The video the cops were watching, what they believed to be a live feed for as long as the shooting occurred, was actually a feed that had a 20 minute delay. The events they were watching on the security system in the school administrator office had occurred 20 minutes before hand. As a parent this has me very worried about the condition and configuration of the security camera systems in our local schools.