Letters to the Editor 02.25.10
February 25, 2010
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OUR VIEW: School tax: a failed proposition
February 18, 2010
In most years in Sarasota County, it's pretty much a given that county voters would support a 1-mill extra property tax for public schools.
MY VIEW: 4 reasons to nix the school tax
February 18, 2010
The reasons why Sarasota County taxpayers — and parents — should oppose the renewal of the district’s special one-mill tax extension continue to mount in stunning fashion.
MY VIEW: Friendship Centers: our biggest secret
February 18, 2010
There's more than friendship to be found at Sarasota's Senior Friendship Centers. Visit one, you’ll be amazed.
OUR VIEW: Police panel runs amok
February 11, 2010
Sometimes criminal-court judges sentence first-time, small-time crime violators to community service. If a judge really wants these types of violators to pay their public due, we’d suggest he sentence them to sitting through the meetings of the Sarasota Police Advisory Panel.
MY VIEW: Why deficits are so pernicious
February 11, 2010
Editor's Note: The following are excerpts from a 1991 article authored by Robert Higgs, the Thomas F. Gleed Professor in the Albers School of Business and the director of the Center for the Study of Social Dynamics at Seattle University.
OUR VIEW: The populist panders for votes
February 4, 2010
Cynics that we are, we can't help but look at Gov. Charlie Crist's tax-cutting proposals last week as another example of Florida's Head Populist scrambling to buy votes.
MY VIEW: The Tebow abortion revelation
February 4, 2010
The furor over the planned Tim Tebow ad in the Super Bowl is a revealing act by the modern pro-choice movement.
Our View: Act II should be even better
January 28, 2010
Let’s start with this: Never have we seen anyone obtain $600,000 in taxpayer cash so quickly and easily.
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