Opinion

Observer Staff
June 17, 2015

OUR VIEW | $682 million for what?

Over 10 years, Longboat Key taxpayers have sent all that money to Manatee and Sarasota. Surely more of it can come back.

Longboat Key
Opinion

Pam Eubanks
June 17, 2015

Major League Football will have major impact on the area

The inaugural Major League Football announced this month it will bring more than 1,000 people to Lakewood Ranch for spring training and located its headquarters there. Local businesses couldn’t be more thrilled.

East County
News

Observer Staff
June 11, 2015

OUR VIEW | Leave Siesta’s pedicabs alone

Mostly unregulated, pedicabs are flourishing and providing a great service on Siesta Key. No surprise: Talk of regulation is rising, too.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 10, 2015

OUR VIEW | Should you do fiber optic, too?

Let’s be honest: If you studied the graphic on page 3 of last week’s Longboat Observer, you probably swallowed hard or your eyes bugged out at the cost of installing underground utility lines per household.

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 4, 2015

Letter to the Editor

The Great Divide: Let’s go unitary

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 4, 2015

OUR VIEW | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

The call of media editorialists, state senators and altruists for expanding Obamacare’s Medicaid program in Florida remains a cacophonous drumbeat of pots and pans.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 3, 2015

MY VIEW | Tennis Center deserves town investment

There have been a lot of recent comments and opinions about the Public Tennis Center lately.

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 3, 2015

OUR VIEW | A seminal moment for LBK

Judging from the full house Monday night in the Longboat Key Town Commission Chambers, you easily could have concluded before the night began that the commission was about to address a controversial issue.

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 28, 2015

OUR VIEW | You want affordable housing?

Like many relatively wealthy and desirable communities, Sarasota is not a place where affordable housing is easy to find. Of course, that depends on your definition of affordable.

Sarasota
Opinion

Matt Walsh
May 27, 2015

OUR VIEW | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

The call of media editorialists, state senators and altruists for expanding Obamacare’s Medicaid program in Florida remains a cacophonous drumbeat of pots and pans.

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 27, 2015

Letters to the editor 5.28.15

Raise player fees to raise funds; Third bridge is the only solution

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 21, 2015

OUR VIEW | Smackdown of Bridget

After rookie School Board member Bridget Ziegler posted her rationale for a vote on social media, her colleagues delivered a thinly veiled rebuke. The message: Watch your mouth, missy.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 20, 2015

Letters to the editor

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 20, 2015

OUR VIEW | Tennis Center Dilemma

If the public tennis center is to be subsidized on par with other parks, what is the right amount? You cannot deny this: Longboat Key is a tennis town, and the supporters of the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center are probably the most passionate, united

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 14, 2015

Letters to the editor

Arrogant Ignorance isn’t a policy; What’s your source?; ‘I hope and pray history does not repeat itself’

Sarasota
Opinion

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OUR VIEW | $682 million for what?

Major League Football will have major impact on the area

OUR VIEW | Leave Siesta’s pedicabs alone

OUR VIEW | Should you do fiber optic, too?

Letter to the Editor

OUR VIEW | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

MY VIEW | Tennis Center deserves town investment

OUR VIEW | A seminal moment for LBK

OUR VIEW | You want affordable housing?

OUR VIEW | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

Letters to the editor 5.28.15

OUR VIEW | Smackdown of Bridget

Letters to the editor

OUR VIEW | Tennis Center Dilemma

Letters to the editor

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