Ed Martin's INSIDE VENICE FLORIDA Blog          These are all the Blogs posted on Sunday, 27, 2009. PART I--DIALOGUE WITH BOB VEDDER editor's note: Over the years Bob Vedder and I have sometimes agreed, more recently disagreed. We keep communicating-or perhaps trying. His reply, below, is in response to an email from me that follows. All is on the City email server and so not private. Ed, I have to say Ed that in all my years of working at the paper I have not been as disappointed in one person we recommended than you. I was so high on the future of the city. The talks wi Read more | 1 comments Posted By Ed Martin at 2:48 PM in Category:Inside Venice VEDDER DIALOGUE--PART II editor's note. This is my answer to Bob Vedder's message of disappointment in my service as Mayor. December 27, 2009 Dear Bob Vedder, I very much appreciate the honesty of your reply. I believe it rings with truth, much more so than the inaccurate charges that you have written, which I now see have been a kind of "flailing about" in frustration. To steal a phrase, "things are not as good as they seem in good times or as bad as they seem in poor ones." < Read more | 1 comments Posted By Ed Martin at 2:56 PM in Category:Inside Venice