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Longboat Key | Opinion

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  • Observer Staff
  • March 7, 2012
Our View: Profile in leadership: Brenner

This week marks one of our annual rites of spring (or almost spring): assessing the candidates running for Longboat Key Town Commission.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Ian Spofforth
  • March 7, 2012
My View: U.S. elections guarantee short-sightedness

Americans should consider the European model of letting legislators select their leader.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • March 7, 2012
Letter to the Editor

Longboat Key's beach is its best attribute

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • March 7, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 29, 2012
Our View: Immoral corporate welfare

Maybe a good roundhouse to their proboscises might knock some sense into them.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Walter Frank
  • February 29, 2012
My View: Best future for Israel is a strong America

On July 15, Bret Stephens, foreign affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal, gave a persuasive presentation to American Jewish Committee Chapter of the Sarasota area, arguing that the United States is wrong in not backing the Netanyahu government in attacking Iran's nuclear facilities.

  • Longboat Key
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 29, 2012
Letters to the Editor

Quit the war drums; Plantings on GMD are not consistent

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • February 29, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 22, 2012
Our View: Who will bomb Iran?

In the normal swirl of the days in our little bitty slice of the world, it's easy to become engrossed in such grave concerns as the harsh brightness of the new landscaping lights on St. Armands Circle.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Ed Adams
  • February 22, 2012
My View: Solution: Make Longboat Key the world's 'tennis mecca'

I'm part of the problem, but I have a solution.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 22, 2012
Letters to the Editor

'Smear tactics' unwelcome

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • February 22, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 15, 2012
Our View: This is America?

Most weeks, we prefer to devote this space to matters directly affecting Longboat Key. Now and again, though, as many of our readers know, our comments will go beyond the Key's island borders.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
George Rauch, Longboat Key, is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.
  • By George Rauch
  • February 15, 2012
Market Watch: 'Thou shalt not covet'

The Decalogue's 10th precept is "thou shalt not covet (another man's wife or property)."

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • February 15, 2012
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
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