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Opinion

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  • Observer Staff
  • February 9, 2017
REVITALIZATION TASK FORCE’S ANALYSIS OF DENSITY VOTE

The entire analysis is available with one click.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Kristine Nickel
  • February 7, 2017
Give it up for the optimist

Look to the future and not the past. It may be a lot rosier than you think.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Emily Walsh
  • February 2, 2017
Considering life in Israel, Americans need to get a grip

The internet was full of fake news. And mainstream media were reporting stories that most respectable journalists wouldn’t consider news. Sensationalism everywhere. It was exhausting.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
$1 million or $2 million residential units would add to the value of the Key far more than a vacant lot with a perpetual for sale sign.
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • February 2, 2017
The Mote vote: Yes

$1 million or $2 million residential units would add to the value of the Key far more than a vacant lot with a perpetual for sale sign.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • February 2, 2017
County leaders and the elusive quest for job growth

Using tax incentives to lure new business to Sarasota County is under scrutiny.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 2, 2017
Longboat Key Letters to the Editor 2.2.17

Longboat Key, traffic, Longboat Key density, Colony Beach & Tennis Resort

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • February 2, 2017
Sarasota Letters to the Editor 2.2.17

City has ignored offers to meet

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Sunday’s storm drove high seas up the beach on Lido Key.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2017
Lido Key beach project is critical to public safety

Sarasota city manager makes case for solutions in sand wars

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
High winds whip up the surf.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2017
Sand war: only losers

Give Sarasota City Manager Tom Barwin credit for trying to keep the Siesta-Lido sand war out of court. Our elected leaders should do whatever it takes to do the same.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
In March 1981, Longboat Key voters voted in favor of a mid-Key bridge.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2017
Bridge to Longboat …

… 50 years of stop-and-go talking

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The town of Longboat Key bought Howard Rooks' 2.2 acre Amore restaurant property on Bay Isle Road for $2.2 million.
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • January 26, 2017
Stakes rise on town center

The town’s acquisition of the Amore restaurant property makes sense for the development of a town cultural center. But it now raises important questions.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
Minton and Sandra Tinsley
    By
  • Anna Brugmann
  • January 24, 2017
Kiwanis Club receives record donation

Sarasota resident leaves record setting gift to the Sarasota Kiwanis Club.

  • Sarasota
  • Neighbors
File photo Even the most stringent growth controls fail to prevent growth in attractive places — it just makes them prohibitively expensive and clogged with traffic, lowering the quality of life for everyone.
    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • January 19, 2017
Embracing growth and grappling with traffic

Tips on addressing the county's most pressing issues.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
Limiting growth practically bankrupt because even the most stringent growth controls fail to prevent growth in attractive places — it just makes them prohibitively expensive and clogged with traffic, lowering the quality of life for everyone.
    By
  • Adrian Moore
  • January 19, 2017
The realities of congestion

The sooner Sarasota city and county leaders start implementing anti-congestion strategies, short and long term, the easier and less costly they will be.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
The grade-separated intersection at Colonial Boulevard and U.S. 41 in Fort Myers.
    By
  • Matt Walsh
  • January 19, 2017
The grade-separated intersection at Colonial Boulevard and U.S. 41 in Fort Myers.

The move was a compromise that provides significantly increased capacity to the roadway network while having significantly less impact on access.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
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