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  • December 30, 2009
The Road to Prosperity

Excerpts and an adaptation from a recent speech to the Florida chapter of the International Council of Shopping Centers.

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  • By Edmund Adams
  • December 30, 2009
My View

What would the state of the union in 2017 be?

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  • December 30, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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  • December 23, 2009
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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  • December 23, 2009
Our View

The birth of Christ in context.

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  • December 23, 2009
OBSERVED: Another year, another traumatic experience

For those of you who are loyal East County Observer readers, this photo may have just given you dejà vu.

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  • December 17, 2009
OUR VIEW: Still time to kill health care bills

Americans don't want the $1 trillion Obama-Pelosi-Reid health care bill.

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  • By Rod Thomson
  • December 17, 2009
MY VIEW: Global-warming e-mails matter

Quite the brouhaha has erupted over revelations that scientists at the heart of studying global warming have apparently been cooking the data and then trying to cover it up.

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  • December 16, 2009
Our View: Still time to kill health bills

Our View: Still time to kill health bills

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  • December 16, 2009
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  • By Public Interest Committee Board of Directors
  • December 16, 2009
Rothenberg should step down from commission

The board of directors of the Longboat Key Public Interest Committee (PIC) is saddened and distressed that the Town Commission, in a 5-2 vote, has allowed Mayor Lee Rothenberg to run for yet another term on the commission.

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  • Michael Eng
  • December 16, 2009
OBSERVED: From our families to yours

For you, our loyal reader, The East County Observer's editorial staff members share our families' most cherished recipes.

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    By
  • Robin Roy
  • December 10, 2009
MY VIEW: My experience with the police department

City Editor Robin Roy shares his experience with the Sarasota Police Department.

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  • By Walter Williams
  • December 10, 2009
MY VIEW: Who knows best: You or Pelosi?

There is only one reason for the forcible transference of decision-making authority over important areas of our private lives to elite decision-makers in Congress and government bureaucracies. Doing so confers control, power, wealth and revenue to society's elite.

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    By
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  • December 10, 2009
Letter to the editor

Readers give opinions about the firing of Sarasota police officer Christopher Childers and offshore seismic survey work.

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