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Longboat Key | Opinion

  • By Sandy Gilbert
  • July 29, 2009
Bring back 1998 program to beautify GMD

With a combination of state beautification grants and volunteer property owners, the east side of Gulf of Mexico Drive could be like the west side: lush and beautiful.

  • Longboat Key
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  • July 29, 2009
Our View

Nine fallacies of Obamacare

  • East County
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  • July 22, 2009
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  • July 22, 2009
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Our arbitrary and capricious code

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  • July 15, 2009
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  • Longboat Key
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  • By Bob White
  • July 15, 2009
My View: There's nothing 'unearned' about our property rights

Islandside owners expect recreational amenities will be maintained according to the ODP.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Rick Scott
  • July 15, 2009
The Health Plan

$1.5 trillion: How is that 'saving'?

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  • July 15, 2009
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We can still win; act now

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
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  • July 8, 2009
Letters to the Editor

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected], or mail them to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 34228. The Longboat Observer gives priority to letters of local interest and about local issues. The Observer will print all letters to the editor if it feels they are of general interest, but only if the letter is signed and the author's street address and phone number are given. The editor reserves the right to condense letters.

  • Longboat Key
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  • July 8, 2009
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The good, the bad and the ...

  • Longboat Key
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    By
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  • July 8, 2009
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That's the spirit

  • Longboat Key
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  • July 1, 2009
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  • Opinion
  • By George Rauch
  • July 1, 2009
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Government policy frustrates recovery

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • July 1, 2009
Our View

Defining 'Spirit of America'

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Sandy Gilbert
  • June 24, 2009
My View: Landau-Younger approach is a better way

Corporate budget experts Lenny Landau and Phil Younger have provided the town of Longboat Key with a budget-format tool that focuses on actual expenses, not fuzzy budgets.

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  • Opinion
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