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  • Josh Siegel
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Sports Tourism

On its journey to become an international sports haven, the Sarasota-Bradenton area has completed the most difficult steps - the first two. Now, it's game time.

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Tasked with charting growth for Manatee County, John Osborne, an East County resident who developed the How Will We Grow plan over two years, believes opportunity for efficiencies should drive growth.
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  • Josh Siegel
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: How we will grow

Manatee County leaders are setting a new vision for growth.

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    By
  • Amanda Sebastiano
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Real estate

Realtors say they expect fewer investors to snatch homes off the market in the coming year, which will leave more inventory available from which primary homebuyers can choose.

  • East County
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Josh Siegel. Manatee County Administrator Ed Hunzeker views a fast-depleting indigent-care trust fund as a potential health care industry problem that extends beyond the people who benefit from the county’s assistance.
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  • Josh Siegel
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Indigent care

Manatee County officials and local health care professionals agree there is no easy solution as they brace for a potential health care crisis.

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Josh Siegel. After her mother's death, Ellen Gerth, with her husband, Dave, left, continues to run marathons and continues with her career, despite the fact that closure may never come.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 8, 2014
Lakewood Ranch murder remains unsolved

Two years after Ina Gross was murdered, her daughter says she still believes the Manatee County Sheriff's Office will arrest the killer.

  • East County
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Courtesy photo. Brittany Wenger is a college student who plays Quidditch by day and is an obsessive cancer diagnostician by night.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 8, 2014
World changer

Time magazine recently included Brittany Wenger, an Out-of-Door Academy graduate and Duke freshman, on its '30 People Under 30 Changing the World' list.

  • East County
  • News
New Stoneybrook homeowners association members Tom Bakalar and Dick Williams (and Williams' wife, Barb) came together for coffee Dec. 17 in anticipation of the Jan. 2 turnover date and election.
    By
  • Josh Siegel
  • January 8, 2014
Stoneybrook names its new board of residents

Members of the new nine-person board of residents all identify with the 'Pro-Stoneybrook Team.'

  • East County
  • News
Courtesy rendering. Town Manager Dave Bullock commissioned Sarasota architect Gary Hoyt to draw up renderings for town center concepts around the Longboat Key Publix.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: ULI time for change

An Urban Land Institute panel urged residents to work together to plan for the future.

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  • News
File photos. Town Manager Dave Bullock told commissioners last month he is "trying to find a logical way to deal with a multitude of issues this collapsing development gives us."
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Colony conundrum

A bankruptcy judge is expected to rule on a Colony Beach & Tennis Resort settlement Jan. 27.

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  • News
File photo. The Cortez Bridge connects mainland Manatee County to Bradenton Beach.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Cortez Bridge

The new year won't bring a new Cortez Bridge, but it will bring traffic delays that come with a $4 million repair project that's scheduled to begin April 28 and be completed in early 2015.

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File photo. Tropical Storm Andrea caused flooding problems in June in neighborhoods like Longbeach Village and Sleepy Lagoon. Rising flood insurance premiums have Longboat Key residents concerned.
    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Insurance costs

Key residents such as Mayor Jim Brown worry that rising insurance costs will force residents seeking affordable insurance to leave the island.

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    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: The final bill

This month, the last of the town's three pension plans will freeze.

  • Longboat Key
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Commissioner Terry Gans
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Election watch

The Longboat Key Town Commission will have at least one new face following the town's March 25 general municipal election.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
File photo. The Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort will close after the season for an 18-month revitalization project.
    By
  • Robin Hartill
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to Watch 2014: Checkout time

The Hilton project is the first to ask for additional tourism units.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Kurt Schultheis
  • January 8, 2014
Issues to watch 2014: Beach project

Times, they are a changing. And that goes for the town's beach-management plan and how Longboat Key's coastline will be maintained moving forward.

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