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Observer Staff
June 11, 2015

OUR VIEW | Leave Siesta’s pedicabs alone

Mostly unregulated, pedicabs are flourishing and providing a great service on Siesta Key. No surprise: Talk of regulation is rising, too.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 4, 2015

Letter to the Editor

The Great Divide: Let’s go unitary

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
June 4, 2015

OUR VIEW | More Medicaid: Federal ransom

The call of media editorialists, state senators and altruists for expanding Obamacare’s Medicaid program in Florida remains a cacophonous drumbeat of pots and pans.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 28, 2015

OUR VIEW | You want affordable housing?

Like many relatively wealthy and desirable communities, Sarasota is not a place where affordable housing is easy to find. Of course, that depends on your definition of affordable.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 21, 2015

OUR VIEW | Smackdown of Bridget

After rookie School Board member Bridget Ziegler posted her rationale for a vote on social media, her colleagues delivered a thinly veiled rebuke. The message: Watch your mouth, missy.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 14, 2015

Letters to the editor

Arrogant Ignorance isn’t a policy; What’s your source?; ‘I hope and pray history does not repeat itself’

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 14, 2015

OUR VIEW | Change and hope

The election of Liz Alpert and Shelli Freeland Eddie (surprise: two Democrats) to the Sarasota City Commission makes the statement voters no longer want the anti-everything status quo.

Sarasota
Opinion

Maria Amodio
May 14, 2015

MY VIEW | An Israeli longs for the ‘America’ he knew

I was first introduced to the “America!” brand as a kindergartner on Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan in Israel.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 7, 2015

OUR VIEW | Amendments: No

Sarasota city voters may not realize it, but there are two charter amendments on the May 12 ballot. Oh, and don’t forget the District 2 and 3 City Commission runoff elections.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
May 7, 2015

Letter to the editor

Thank you to our community

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
April 30, 2015

MY VIEW | How to solve the traffic congestion

Build an underpass at U.S. 41 and the Ringling Causeway.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
April 30, 2015

OUR VIEW | We recommend …

Not much separates the four candidates running for City Commission. None of them would make a bad choice. They are all pragmatic and smart. But we give an edge to two.