I hope you are enjoying a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday and that, if you're traveling, it's not too stressful.

And I'm really hoping that the blood pressure has gone down for the significant number of Key Westers who had a collective freakout last Wednesday when it was reported that there was draft legislation in Tallahassee that would "abolish the city of Key West."

After having our own small freakout in the newsroom, we (at WLRN) decided not to report on this because ... nothing has actually happened yet. No bill has been filed. No one has even posted, that I know of, an actual copy of this draft legislation — or information about who is sponsoring it.

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A crowd gathers at mallory square during the founding of the Conch Republic in 1982. — The founding of the Conch Republic, 1982. Photo from the Ida Woodward Barron collection, Monroe County Public Library