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Longboat Key | Opinion

    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • May 27, 2015
OUR VIEW | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

The call of media editorialists, state senators and altruists for expanding Obamacare’s Medicaid program in Florida remains a cacophonous drumbeat of pots and pans.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 27, 2015
Letters to the editor 5.28.15

Raise player fees to raise funds; Third bridge is the only solution

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The Longboat Key Public Tennis Center was built in 2003. File photo
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 20, 2015
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 20, 2015
OUR VIEW | Tennis Center Dilemma

If the public tennis center is to be subsidized on par with other parks, what is the right amount? You cannot deny this: Longboat Key is a tennis town, and the supporters of the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center are probably the most passionate, united

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 13, 2015
OUR VIEW | Entitlement in the firehouse

It’s rarely a good sign when a department head and his or her boss are not in alignment in their public comments.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 13, 2015
Letters to the editor

Tennis Center is a crown jewel; It’s obvious: Support the tennis center; Tennis center is second only to the beaches; Tennis center actually a small cost to town; Tennis deserves to be preserved

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 13, 2015
MY VIEW | An Israeli longs for the ‘America’ he knew

I was first introduced to the “America!” brand as a kindergartner on Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan in Israel, thanks to Elazar “Luzer” Halivni, whose ceramics studio was located at the junction of the main road to the kibbutz and the path to the swimming pool.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
VE Day: 70 years ago

Friday marks the anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe — an indelible memory for its survivors.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 6, 2015
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | Sound off: Referendum

We asked for your traffic solutions in our April 30 editorial, “Send in your vote,” and you responded. Keep the dialogue going by emailing your opinions to Managing Editor Robin Hartill at [email protected].

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 29, 2015
OUR VIEW | EMS dispatch: Take the risk

It’s a common dilemma: the devil you know versus the one you don’t. In spite of the angst, Longboat should stay the course: Make the switch. If it doesn’t work, change again.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
A Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. Courtesy photo
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 29, 2015
More parallels of history

Polish Jews called themselves ‘voices from the abyss.’ Today those voices are also Christian and Muslim.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 29, 2015
Letters to the editor

Vote ‘yes’ on Key Club referendum; America faces threats to freedom

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 22, 2015
Letters to the editor

Key Club referendum: Leaning toward ‘no’; Vote ‘NO’ on Key Club referendum; Give us more truth

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust and celebrated a signed agreement with Adolph Hitler that Britain and Germany would never go to war again. Will Barack Obama be our Neville Chamberlain? Courtesy photos
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 22, 2015
Our View: The parallels of history

Obama’s negotiating with the Iranians has many parallels to Neville Chamberlain and Adolph Hitler.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • April 15, 2015
OUR VIEW | The May referendum

The May 12 vote is not a referendum giving the Resort at Longboat Key Club the approval to expand. But it is a vote that will determine the future prosperity of Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
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