
Governments as developers
The strategy is to build a venue for farmers markets, concerts and art festivals with the hope donors and taxpayers will support a cultural and community center. Hope is never a good strategy.
The strategy is to build a venue for farmers markets, concerts and art festivals with the hope donors and taxpayers will support a cultural and community center. Hope is never a good strategy.
The easier it is to vote, the less it is valued.
It makes little sense for the Sarasota County Commission to adopt a new tax for mental health services — especially when living costs are rising rapidly and the county is awash in federal cash.
When things go wrong, we call for government intervention. Perhaps some neighborly kindness can squelch the boisterous noise near Jewfish Key.
It goes without saying in Florida that any major development will spark vocal opposition.
No one knows how the current strife in America will end. But we’ve been resilient for 245 years. And we know this, too: An essential ingredient to pursuing happiness is you must be free.
Gannett Co.’s editors besmirched Florida and its 22.6 million people as ‘a cradle’ of hate, delusion and extremism — ignoring the hate, death and destruction wrought by the ‘peaceful’ protesters.