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Opinion

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  • March 7, 2013
Our View: We recommend ...

Sarasota city voters, this is your time. Next Tuesday's City Commission election is a historical tipping point.

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  • Matt Walsh
  • March 6, 2013
Our View: Economics of blackmail

For all those Tea Partyers chafing over Gov. Rick Scott's switcheroo to accept Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid spending in the state, sometimes you just have to take ipecac.

  • Longboat Key
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  • March 6, 2013
Paid Election Letter

Untrue assertions regarding commission

  • Longboat Key
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  • By George Rauch
  • March 6, 2013
Market Watch: No clear path for the investor exists

We need to step back, take a look at our investment life and redefine where profits will come from in the future.

  • Longboat Key
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  • By Jorge Blanco
  • February 28, 2013
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 28, 2013
Our View: Thank you, Alta Vista

Louis Doyle, meet Bert J. Harris Jr. Mr. Doyle is the owner of the Ringling Shopping Center, the Tuesday night victim of the Alta Vista neighborhood Luddites who don't like Walmart. Bert J. Harris Jr. is the name of a man after whom a now-famous Florida law may soon be looming ominously over the city of Sarasota and its taxpayers, thanks to the Alta Vistans.

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  • February 27, 2013
Our View: Recommendations

Three competitive races with six candidates vying for the Longboat Key Town Commission are a sign of community engagement. It's healthy.

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 27, 2013
Letters to the Editor

PIC has lost its way; Response to PIC facts

  • Longboat Key
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  • February 21, 2013
Letters to the Editor

Citrus Square is good example; The sounds of business; Applause to editorials

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • February 20, 2013
Our View: Businesses don't pay taxes

Business tax cuts and corporate-recruiting incentives will be prominent policy issues for the Legislature this year.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Jorge Blanco
  • February 20, 2013
Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 20, 2013
Paid Election Letter: Longboat Key PIC endorses incumbents

The Longboat Key Public Interest Committee strongly believes that Longboat Key voters should return incumbents Brown, Gans and Younger to the Town Commission so they can continue their fine work on behalf of the citizens and our island.

  • Longboat Key
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates
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  • Observer Staff
  • February 14, 2013
Our View: A contrast in character

Americans should be outraged and hounding Barack Obama relentlessly for his indifferent, disgraceful disdain for the four Americans who died in Benghazi, Libya.

  • Sarasota
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  • February 14, 2013
Letters to the Editor

Where are the reforms?; A call for action; Crosswalk info needed

  • Sarasota
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  • February 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor

Reading facts may provide the answer; Longboat Key Garden Club thanks you; Responsibility before dreams suggestions

  • Longboat Key
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