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Longboat Key | Opinion

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  • July 2, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Changes to Longboat Key affecting my way of life

  • Longboat Key
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  • July 2, 2014
Our View

Why Jefferson wrote it

  • East County
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  • By Bob Gault
  • June 25, 2014
My View: Taxpayers deserve due diligence on utility poles

Commissioners erred when they decided not to bury utility lines while most Longboat Key property owners are away.

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Photos by Dex Honea The new poles: Notice its girth versus the bench — huge.
    By
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  • June 25, 2014
Our View

Big, fat poles

  • Longboat Key
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  • June 18, 2014
Our View

How to divvy the tourist tax

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  • June 11, 2014
Our View: Long may it wave

Surely, we're not alone in thinking that we, as Americans, are having our American ideals and patriotism tested to new limits lately. And now this one: the Bergdahl for Taliban terrorists, which occurred in front of the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Talk about mixed messages.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • June 11, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Mar Vista, Moore's were on Key before most residents; Drivers, cyclists must share the roads; Town should prioritize people over turtles; Roundabouts would solve traffic woes; Limiting beach access points could improve traffic

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Allied troops on Omaha Beach
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  • Matt Walsh
  • June 4, 2014
Our View: 'Never again'?

This is the 70th anniversary of D-Day ... June 6, 1944. We all have seen the photographs and footage from the beaches of Normandy. We have seen the rows upon rows of our nearly 9,400 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery - most of them killed in Operation Overlord, the code name for the Allies' invasion of France. But so few of us in subsequent generations can even imagine what author Rick Atkinson vividly re-creates in his epic book, 'The Guns at Last Light.'

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 28, 2014
Our View

A decision not to regret

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Bradford Saivetz
  • May 28, 2014
My View

Beach costs not fairly apportioned

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 28, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Plaudits for 'the moment'

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
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  • May 21, 2014
Our View

Remember the fallen

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    By
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  • May 21, 2014
Letters to the Editor

Rethinking the case against Clippers owner Donald Sterling

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • May 14, 2014
Our View

Call in the creative pros

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
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  • May 7, 2014
Our View

SMH should give it a try

  • Longboat Key
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