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Longboat Key | Opinion

  • By Jorge Blanco
  • May 30, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 30, 2012
Our View: Don't fall for steelworker's sob

You have to be dreading the next five months. We are.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 23, 2012
Our View: Surely the Villagers see reality

If Whitney Beach Plaza on north Longboat Key is ever to become a property befitting of Longboat Key, the following is the unavoidable reality and truth, which few Longboaters apparently wish to face.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 16, 2012
Our View: A good, good, good man

When our editors searched our archives for photos of Al Hogle, Executive Editor Lisa Walsh recalled the portrait of Chief Hogle published in October 2007, when he announced his candidacy for Sarasota County sheriff.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • May 16, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Edmund Adams
  • May 16, 2012
My View: A call to duty for religious liberty

Catholic bishops call the contraception issue an 'unjust law.' As such, they are taking up their moral arms and vow to disobey it. And they should.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 16, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Commissioners need to fix what's broken

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 9, 2012
Our View: Years of reckoning are here

This is the long-awaited public unveiling of how the Longboat Key Town Commission wants to address that frustrating, ever-festering problem of the town's $28 million unfunded employee-pension liabilities.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • May 9, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • May 2, 2012
Our View: Signs of life

Let's feel good for a change, or at least better. Economic growth - vis-a-vis the contractions of 2009 and 2010 - is definitely under way.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • May 2, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By George Rauch
  • May 2, 2012
Market Watch: The givers and the takers

People can be divided into two groups: givers and takers. By nature, the takers are more interested in control and, hence, power, than the givers.Â

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • April 25, 2012
Our View: Reviewing codes long overdue

Longboat Key commissioners don't get much credit, but for this we want to encourage them to forge ahead.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • April 25, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
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  • Observer Staff
  • April 18, 2012
Our View: Who is he to decide 'fairness'?

We received the following letter on Tax Day from the owner of a local business:

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