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Longboat Key | Opinion

Some residents wants to preserve the 1930s-era Whitney cottage on the property of the Longboat Key Center for the Arts.Â
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 26, 2017
The cost of preserving LBK history

As with most things, it’s all about the money.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 20, 2017
Give this bill an ‘F’

Florida lawmakers can’t help themselves. They love to meddle (too much) in public education. The latest idea — ‘Schools of Hope’ — doesn’t offer much hope. It’s bureaucracy at its worst.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 20, 2017
MYTH OF SARASOTA: THAT IT IS A BOOM TOWN, HOT BED OF GROWTH

The numbers don't lie.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
These are just three of the thinly veiled environmental messages on the city’s sea level-rising sign at Lido Key Beach.
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 12, 2017
Streets, trash and safety

Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin has good intentions, educating the public about climate change. But the city shouldn’t be telling you to drive instead of fly or to eat less red meat.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Randy Clair
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • April 12, 2017
Succession planning

It should be a goal in the community.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Bird Key Yacht Club Commodore Charlie Wilson and Mote President and CEO Michael Crosby
    By
  • Katie Johns
  • April 12, 2017
Bird Key revitalizes Sarasota Bay Cup with charitable partnership

The Mote Regatta will be held on April 21 and 22.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
One proposal calls for reducing Fruitville to a two-lane road between Lemon and Cocoanut avenues, with roundabouts at those two intersections as well as at Central Avenue.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2017
Try a Fruitville overpass

Sarasota city officials are stuck on narrowing Fruitville Road, seemingly ignoring the road is a major east-west artery. Surely there are creative alternatives. How about a charrette?

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Suggestions are swirling to solve traffic and pedestrian issues on Fruitville Road and U.S. 41.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2017
Longboat Observer readers sound off on Key issues

Voters spoke loud and clear on density.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Phill Younger
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2017
Taxpayers' watchdog

Younger is off the Town Commission, but he's still involved.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is called a “centrist,” which by D.C. media standards means he doesn’t just vote party line; on occasion he will vote for what is best for the country.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 6, 2017
Nelson’s Gorsuch vote reveals who comes first: Himself

He said he will vote in favor of a filibuster to stop Gorsuch’s nomination.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
More than 100 Palm Coast residents opposed to HB 425 filled the Hammock Community Center on a Saturday night for a Town Hall meeting.
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • March 30, 2017
THE STATE VS. HOME RULE

The question of who has authority to regulate short-term vacation rentals is intensifying all over Florida. Our own senator is championing property rights. But one size does not fit all.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 30, 2017
Letters to the editor

Some thanks, a missing element, and 'taking'

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The vacant property at the center is the property owned by the Mote Scientific Foundation, a not-for-profit that would have benefited from the sale of the site to Brista Homes.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 23, 2017
At what point is it a taking?

Longboat’s density restrictions have created what looks like an unreasonable burden.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 23, 2017
How the Bert Harris Act works

Ronald Weaver updated the Bert Harris Act in 2007.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Kelly Carson
  • March 23, 2017
Letters to the editor

Tolls, election, growth and the arts

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
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