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Questionnaire: Rob Long, Democratic candidate for House District 90

October 30, 2025 at 4:56 p.m.

Completed questionnaire for Rob Long, Democratic candidate for House District 90.

Federal agents carry boxes out of an office of a drug treatment center in Delray Beach in December 2014 amid a crackdown on sober homes and treatment centers that used addicts as pawns so they could bill insurance companies for frequent drug treatment and testing services.

Florida’s newest preemption threatens Delray’s hard-won progress | Opinion

April 15, 2025 at 9:24 a.m.

The vice mayor of Delray Beach speaks out against legislation that would preempt some local regulation of sober homes, which could see his city return to the bad old days...

Rob Long is a candidate for Delray Beach City Commission.

Questionnaire: Rob Long, candidate for Delray Beach City Commission

February 17, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.

Name: Rob Long Campaign website: www.RobForDelray.com Date and place of birth: 1/13/1985, Gaithersburg, Maryland Office sought: Delray Beach City Commission, Seat 2 List, in order of importance, the three most...

Rob Long is the incumbent candidate for Palm Beach Soil and Water Conservation District 4

Soil and Water Conservation District officials wrongly removed from office | Opinion

June 28, 2022 at 5:13 p.m.

On June 15, I was stripped of the office I've held for the last six years — the office I was reelected to in 2020 by over 326,000 Palm Beach...

Florida Sen. Travis Hutson, center, makes a point at a Senate Community Affairs Committee meeting during a legislative session, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, in Tallahassee. Hutson has proposed requiring those who run for a seat on soil and water conservation districts to be engaged in farming or animal husbandry.

Animal husbandry may soon be a requirement for some Florida political candidates | Opinion

January 31, 2022 at 4:15 p.m.

This year's capricious attack on Florida's Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCDs) by several members of the state Legislature has taken a strange turn. State Sen. Travis Hutson, R-St. Augustine,...

Killing Florida’s soil and water conservation districts is a terrible, expensive idea | Opinion

December 23, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.

Could Florida — the state most impacted by climate change — be the first in history to abolish its local soil and water conservation districts? Inexplicably, yes. A bill (SB...

West Palm Beach could lift ban on fake-turf front lawns. Instead, ban it entirely | Opinion

July 28, 2021 at 1:54 p.m.

This Monday, the city of West Palm Beach will discuss lifting the controversial ban on synthetic turf in front lawns. Currently, the city's code enforcement only allows synthetic turf in...

A 2019 Delray Beach City Commission meeting.

The obvious truth about Delray’s drinking water | Opinion

March 7, 2022 at 1:46 p.m.

It's probably apocryphal, but German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer supposedly said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as...

Brownfields and justice: Minorities more likely to live in polluted areas | Opinion

January 22, 2021 at 3:56 p.m.

As we reflect on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., it is important to understand the racial inequities that persist throughout our society today. Systemic oppression reveals itself through...

Rob Long, a leader of Young Democrats in Palm Beach County, says the party must find new ways to appeal to millennials, including working with Republicans.

An open letter to all Democrats in Palm Beach County | Opinion

January 4, 2021 at 3:32 p.m.

The promise of a bright new political landscape in just a few weeks is the only thing helping some of us cope during this unique and challenging holiday season. Hopefully...

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