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Longboat Key | Opinion

    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 22, 2015
It’s time: peacocks must go

Round up all of them. Keeping a dozen male peacocks won’t change this fact: They’re a nuisance.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 15, 2015
Great information for every LBK taxpayer

Kudos to Town Manager David Bullock and town staffers who produced the online information about the underground-utility referenda. It’s a ‘must-read’ for an informed electorate.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • July 9, 2015
What we pay is none of Obama’s business

The president’s new rules for overtime will be another unnecessary intrusion into the relationship between employer and employee. Enough of this dictatorship.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Our View
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 1, 2015
Our View: The spirit of liberty defined

We publish our annual “Spirit of America” section — with the hope we can capture and keep alive some of the values and characteristics that have defined American exceptionalism since our nation’s founding 239 years ago.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • June 24, 2015
OUR VIEW | how to address the noise

Inform the revelers. If they know they can be fined or jailed, they’ll change their behavior.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 17, 2015
OUR VIEW | $682 million for what?

Over 10 years, Longboat Key taxpayers have sent all that money to Manatee and Sarasota. Surely more of it can come back.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Sad dilemma: The St. Judes Drive seawall
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 10, 2015
OUR VIEW | Should you do fiber optic, too?

Let’s be honest: If you studied the graphic on page 3 of last week’s Longboat Observer, you probably swallowed hard or your eyes bugged out at the cost of installing underground utility lines per household.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 3, 2015
MY VIEW | Tennis Center deserves town investment

There have been a lot of recent comments and opinions about the Public Tennis Center lately.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 3, 2015
OUR VIEW | A seminal moment for LBK

Judging from the full house Monday night in the Longboat Key Town Commission Chambers, you easily could have concluded before the night began that the commission was about to address a controversial issue.

  • 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
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