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Opinion

  • By Rod Thomson
  • June 24, 2010
MY VIEW: Impervious to common sense

The decision to spend $250,000 extra on paver sidewalks in a rural area is to save us from the environmental threat of ... a pond.

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  • Matt Walsh
  • June 23, 2010
Our View: Lessons from 'the vote'

It's difficult to erase the ending to last week's Longboat Key Town Commission meeting. It was surreal.

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  • By Sylvia McNichol
  • June 23, 2010
BP ads adding insult to injury

I know business is tough, and you are getting what you can get. But, the BP ads about the oil spill are just too much.

  • East County
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  • June 23, 2010
Letters to the Editor

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected], or mail them to The Longboat Observer, 5570 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 34228.

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  • By Stuart Scheyer
  • June 23, 2010
My View

How curious: Welcome to Longboat Land

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  • June 17, 2010
Let the Panhandle be a lesson

If local government officials haven't tuned in to what occurred Monday in Destin and Okaloosa County, they better get on Google and on the phones and start researching. Be ready.

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  • Michael Eng
  • June 16, 2010
OBSERVED: In honor of Dad and his drawer

Growing up, I must have come to my dad with hundreds of broken toys, shoelaces and scraped knees. And every time, he knew just how to fix them. That's just what dads do.

  • East County
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  • By Sheree Napier
  • June 16, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Honor Sanctuary isn't only east rescue

Once again we see a statement from Honor Sanctuary printed in your newspaper stating that Honor Sanctuary is the only rescue in the East County supporting the East County people.

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  • By Tom Thomaides
  • June 16, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ranch incorporation

The growth projected over the next 10-20 years will occur regardless of incorporation. However, by becoming a city, residents would have a much more active voice in how that growth and development occurs.

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  • June 15, 2010
KEY CLUB: Letters to the editor

Longboat Key residents respond to the Town Commission's vote at Monday's Longboat Key Club and Resort Islandside project hearing.

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  • June 15, 2010
Letters to the editor

Letters to the editor

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  • June 15, 2010
Our View: Blame game

It's Tuesday, June 15, one day after the Longboat Key Town Commission likely killed the Longboat Key Club and Resort's renovation and expansion plan, and it's a good bet many Longboaters are still in a swoon, swirling, dazed and ... well, P-Oed.

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  • June 10, 2010
Our View

The Van Wezel dilemma; FTC: Let's subsidize journalism

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  • June 9, 2010
Letter to the editor

Town Manager Bruce St. Denis responds to a letter from Longboat Key residents Bob and Shannon Gault.

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  • June 9, 2010
Our View

The vote: our economic future

  • Longboat Key
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