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  • February 11, 2010
OUR VIEW: Police panel runs amok

Sometimes criminal-court judges sentence first-time, small-time crime violators to community service. If a judge really wants these types of violators to pay their public due, we'd suggest he sentence them to sitting through the meetings of the Sarasota Police Advisory Panel.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Robert Higgs
  • February 11, 2010
MY VIEW: Why deficits are so pernicious

Editor's Note: The following are excerpts from a 1991 article authored by Robert Higgs, the Thomas F. Gleed Professor in the Albers School of Business and the director of the Center for the Study of Social Dynamics at Seattle University.

  • Sarasota
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  • February 10, 2010
Pension purgatory

The town of Longboat Key has serious employee pension problems - and they're not just the $25 million in unfunded liabilities hanging over the town's taxpayers.

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  • February 10, 2010
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  • February 4, 2010
OUR VIEW: The populist panders for votes

Cynics that we are, we can't help but look at Gov. Charlie Crist's tax-cutting proposals last week as another example of Florida's Head Populist scrambling to buy votes.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Rod Thomson
  • February 4, 2010
MY VIEW: The Tebow abortion revelation

The furor over the planned Tim Tebow ad in the Super Bowl is a revealing act by the modern pro-choice movement.

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  • February 3, 2010
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  • February 3, 2010
Our view: Customer service? What's that?

Longboat Key voters won't have access to early voting for the March Town Commission elections. Town commissioners apparently didn't want to confuse voters or spend the $12,000 for two weeks of poll workers.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By George Rauch
  • February 3, 2010
U.S. government destroyed our money

A look at 300 years of economic history briefly enough to understand how we got into this terrible economic predicament with a worthless currency and why we must return to a gold-and-silver standard before this country can be free again from the shackles of government.

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  • January 28, 2010
Our View: Act II should be even better

Let's start with this: Never have we seen anyone obtain $600,000 in taxpayer cash so quickly and easily.

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  • January 27, 2010
Our view: The public interest

The commissioners' vote on the Longboat Key Club's renovation-and-expansion project will be a statement written into Longboat Key's history, the legacy of who we were - as a people bonded together on this island, as Floridians and as Americans.

  • Longboat Key
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  • January 27, 2010
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  • Longboat Key
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  • By Rod Thomson
  • January 21, 2010
School tax primer for everyone

School tax primer for everyone

  • Sarasota
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  • January 21, 2010
Let's dissect Obamacare

Let's dissect Obamacare

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  • January 21, 2010
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