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Observer Staff
February 23, 2012

Letters to the Editor

Call it the 'little orphaned south end'; f you want change, add parking spaces

Sarasota
Opinion

By Jorge Blanco
February 22, 2012

Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

Longboat Key
Opinion

By Richard Dorfman
February 16, 2012

My View: Keep your hands off downtown, dummies!

Downtown is a little bit funky, a bit old school and a little bit frayed. But all of these characteristics spell 'personality.'

Sarasota
Opinion

By Chris Waters
February 16, 2012

My View: Without a long-range vision, cities perish

Sarasota needs a community-wide consensus and vision, to help it navigate over the next 100 years.

Sarasota
Opinion

By Rod Thomson
February 16, 2012

My View: Mortgage settlement for politicians

So the nation's five largest banks will pay $25 billion as a "settlement," and some homeowners who are upside down on their mortgages will get relief.

Sarasota
Opinion

By Jorge Blanco
February 15, 2012

Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.

Longboat Key
Opinion

By Dean Kalahar
February 9, 2012

My View: 'Homeless' don't have right to harm property

Advocates who demand non-judgmental public policies out of a sense of guilt only lead vagrants into dependence.

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
February 9, 2012

Letters to the Editor

Don't let us down; keep Southwest Airlines

Sarasota
Opinion

Observer Staff
February 8, 2012

Our View: Obama's assault on religion

No ideas are more fundamental to our nation's heritage and moral principles than those expressed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Longboat Key
Opinion

By Jorge Blanco
February 8, 2012

Castaway

Enjoy this week's Castaway Cartoon.

Longboat Key
Opinion

By Rod Thomson
February 2, 2012

My View: Hold back the heavy hand

Sarasota County staff recently presented heavy-handed code changes to landscaping that would have required even more bureaucracy to oversee onerous burdens on a struggling industry.