Veteran commissioner withdraws from re-election bid.

What kind of thanks do you get for investing $600 million and boosting the values of Longboat Key? The same old Longboat thanks.

Murf Klauber and the Colony are gone. But the treasures he prized — his beach and Makepeace groin — will remain as lasting legacies.

But not all of them could get a coveted table in the Colony Dining Room.

From George Washington on, our presidents have reaffirmed every Thanksgiving our nation’s belief in what inspired the Pilgrims.

Florida is like the nation: Its rural and less-populated areas are holding on to their conservative ways, while the most populous centers are becoming increasingly progressive.

Perhaps it is not coincidental, then, that within a few days of our national elections is Veterans Day, the day the nation comes together to honor its military veterans.