OUR VIEW: Rick Scott for governor
July 14, 2010
If you cut through all of the Bill McCollum and Alex Sink character-assassination attack ads; if you discard the standard operating procedure of the daily newspapers and their editorialists — which is to discredit anyone who has been a success in business; and if you judge Florida's gubernatorial candidates on their professional accomplishments, the choice for governor is overwhelmingly clear.
Scott explains what happened
July 14, 2010
Florida’s daily newspapers and Rick Scott's gubernatorial opponents have rushed to paint him as an unethical profiteer. And everything they present you is through their filter. We're reprinting Scott's own explanation of the Medicare fines that his former company paid in 2000 and 2003.
OUR VIEW: The birth of Spirit of America
June 30, 2010
To know where you're going, it helps to know from where you came.
OUR VIEW: Sarasota Power & Light? Ugh
June 24, 2010
Having the government of the city of Sarasota own and operate a not-for-profit electric company definitely does not make sense.
MY VIEW: Impervious to common sense
June 24, 2010
The decision to spend $250,000 extra on paver sidewalks in a rural area is to save us from the environmental threat of … a pond.
Let the Panhandle be a lesson
June 17, 2010
If local government officials haven’t tuned in to what occurred Monday in Destin and Okaloosa County, they better get on Google and on the phones and start researching. Be ready.
My View: Painless cutbacks — to the public
June 3, 2010
If government cuts employees and spending in a recession, does anyone notice?
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25 Free Summer Olympics for the kids
10:00 am - 4:00 pm - May
25 New Healing Tarot Two-Day Workshop with Edith Cheitman
10:00 am - 4:00 pm - May
25 Shabbat Shmooze - Dr. William Fogel
12:30 pm - 6:00 am - May
25 Special Sacred WESAK Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Event
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Jolly good fellow
05/23/13
Just as Observer advertising representative Bob Lewis loves to garden, he also cultivates relationships with all of his co-workers and clients. -
Going for the gold
05/23/13
Sisters Francesca and Elizabeth Martel returned victorious Monday, May 20, after a weekend at the Special Olympics of Florida State Summer Games, in Orlando. -
Culinary roots
05/16/13
Trevor Kunk is the chef de cuisine at Blue Hill in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which the James Beard Foundation just named "most outstanding restaurant."
