Our View: Amendments 1, 3, 5, 8, 12
October 10, 2012
When we began this process of analyzing the 11 proposed state constitution amendments two weeks ago, we noted a preference that is probably true with most voters: Leave the constitution alone! Quit junking it up with special exceptions and favors to special groups.
My View: Mote Marine Laboratory: Take a closer look at red tide
October 10, 2012
We live in an area easily described as paradise. The sun, the beaches, the weather; for the most part, we have it all.
PHOTO GALLERY: World Animal Day
October 8, 2012
Hundreds of guests braved the rain Thursday, October 4 at Big Cat Habitat to celebrate World Animal Day, an annual event that celebrates mankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom. Visitors enjoyed various animal demonstrations, lectures, food and drink and face painting.
Letters to the Editor
October 4, 2012
Roundabouts not a good match for boat ramp; Civil Service Board protects its own
Our View: The property amendments
October 3, 2012
Frederic Bastiat, the great French economic journalist of the 1840s, would be launching into tirades on talk radio today if he were asked to analyze the proposed constitutional amendments on Florida’s Nov. 6 ballot.
Our View: Behind the amendments
September 26, 2012
Florida's general election ballots overflow with proposed constitutional amendments. This year is no different. There will be 11 proposed state constitutional amendments on the November ballot.
Our View: Yes, get rid of 2050
September 20, 2012
It appears none of the five county commissioners has the moral conviction and courage to declare the county's 2050 plan — the county laws governing development — an abject economic failure, destructive to the economic welfare of the county's citizens and that it should be rescinded and burned at the stake.
- May
22 Rhonda Riley: The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope
7:00 pm - May
23 [New Scholars] New College
8:00 am - 4:00 pm - May
23 Ageless Grace with Mary Masi
10:00 am - 11:00 am - May
23 Fun Fitness for Parkinsons
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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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." -
Bright lights
05/16/13
Sarasota native and resident Bri Oliva made her TV debut May 7, on the "Rachael Ray Show." Oliva was selected to participate in a segment called "Hidden Dangers on the Playground." -
Key to the city
05/02/13
More than 100 community members and leaders, friends and family surprised Paul Thorpe, one of the founding members of the Downtown Association of Sarasota, April 25, at The Gator Club, to show their appreciation and celebrate the strides he’s made for Sarasota over the past four decades.
