Michael Welly, managing director of the Longboat Key Club and Resort from 2004-2012, died Jan. 14.

On the surface, it sure looks like the city of Sarasota would be a bigger beneficiary than Siesta Key taxpayers.

To all those people who worked so earnestly on the Siesta Key incorporation efforts: Good try.

Some might think building more roads only leads to more road usage. Logic points to the contrary.

We all would like to wipe away and forget the strife of 2021, but much of it is not going to go away. To turn the tide and preserve what our founders created, we must act with great courage in 2022.

When Floridians look at the ‘2021 Year in Review,’ while strife was rampant elsewhere, hopefully they will remember and see that Florida was a lone beacon for freedom. We need to keep it that way.

Local governments have so much money politicians say they don’t know what to do with it. The most effective use of these windfalls is to invest in long-term infrastructure touching the most people.