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Longboat Key | Opinion

Observer Staff
February 10, 2010

Pension purgatory

The town of Longboat Key has serious employee pension problems - and they're not just the $25 million in unfunded liabilities hanging over the town's taxpayers.

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Opinion

Observer Staff
February 10, 2010

Letters to the editor

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Observer Staff
February 3, 2010

Letters to the editor

Longboat Key
Opinion

Observer Staff
February 3, 2010

Our view: Customer service? What's that?

Longboat Key voters won't have access to early voting for the March Town Commission elections. Town commissioners apparently didn't want to confuse voters or spend the $12,000 for two weeks of poll workers.

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Opinion

By George Rauch
February 3, 2010

U.S. government destroyed our money

A look at 300 years of economic history briefly enough to understand how we got into this terrible economic predicament with a worthless currency and why we must return to a gold-and-silver standard before this country can be free again from the shackles of government.

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Neighbors

Observer Staff
January 27, 2010

Our view: The public interest

The commissioners' vote on the Longboat Key Club's renovation-and-expansion project will be a statement written into Longboat Key's history, the legacy of who we were - as a people bonded together on this island, as Floridians and as Americans.

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Observer Staff
January 27, 2010

Letters to the editor

Longboat Key
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Observer Staff
January 20, 2010

Larson, Pokoik: Win either way

Three good candidates. Incumbent Mayor Lee Rothenberg and challengers Lynn Larson and Lee Pokoik. They are vying for the Longboat Key Town Commission District 1 seat because they want to protect and improve your quality of life.