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Longboat Key | Opinion

  • By Jorge Blanco
  • July 18, 2012
Castaway

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  • July 11, 2012
Our View: Lessons from Lenobel

When you reflect on the 12 and a half years that Hal Lenobel served as a Longboat Key mayor and commissioner, you can see there were two distinct phases of his tenure - the mayoral phase and the statesman phase.

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Read this week's Castaway.
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • July 11, 2012
Castaway

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  • Longboat Key
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  • July 3, 2012
Our View: Why they declared freedom

It's always a good reminder at this time of year to go back to the beginning.

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  • June 27, 2012
Our View: 'Education is a shambles'

It doesn't matter how much Florida Gov. Rick Scott sticks to his election campaign promises - making Florida the top state for business in America; accountability at every level of state government; lower taxes; lower cost of government; fewer regulations that irrationally inhibit economic growth.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • June 27, 2012
Castaway

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  • Longboat Key
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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • June 20, 2012
Castaway

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  • June 20, 2012
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It's just a sign!

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  • June 13, 2012
Our View: Illegal voters: Yes, purge them

On principle, you really can't argue with Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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  • By Mitchell Levin
  • June 13, 2012
My View: Pension plan: Rainbows and butterflies or logic?

"Fiscally sound" is not how the pension board behaves.

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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • June 13, 2012
Castaway

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  • June 13, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Colonel Bustle is an honorable man; No new taxes just smoke and mirrors

  • Longboat Key
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  • By R. James Beam
  • June 6, 2012
My View: Bain Capital orchestrated financial disaster

This is in rebuttal to the May 31 editorial entitled "Don't fall for steelworker' sob."

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  • June 6, 2012
Our View: Catholic giant is awakened

Rare is the occasion when the Sunday bulletins at Catholic Churches forfeit their normally pastoral cover pages for a message like the one on the front of St. Martha's bulletin this past Sunday.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • June 6, 2012
Castaway

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