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Sarasota | Opinion

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  • Observer Staff
  • September 2, 2010
OUR VIEW: Trash talk

The good news: Residential garbage rates in the city of Sarasota dropped $3 a month effective Wednesday - to $21.66. This will save about $700,000 in a year.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Rod Thomson
  • September 2, 2010
MY VIEW: The Dream Crushers

We've ceded far too much power to government and her bureaucrats. It is not overwrought to say it is a step toward the end of the American dream.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By The Argus Foundation Board of Directors
  • September 2, 2010
MY VIEW: City should renew FPL agreement

The risks and costs of a city-owned power company are too great to replace Florida's most efficient power supplier.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Gene Crites
  • September 2, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: User experience shows roundabouts are a problem

I come from Greater Boston metropolitan area, and I want to tell you from firsthand experience that these roundabouts are going to be a major problem for Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Susan Bagat
  • September 2, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: French language option in schools should be retained

Riverview High School is phasing out its French language program, and this curriculum change should not be ignored.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 26, 2010
OUR VIEW: The attack plan failed

The saying goes, "All is fair in love, war and politics." But as we have witnessed in this year's Republican gubernatorial election, "fair" does not equate with right and proper, and it certainly doesn't equate with integrity.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 19, 2010
OUR VIEW: Move the city's election date

Voter turnout has come to the forefront of Sarasota city politics, not because of next Tuesday's primary election, but because a group of engaged citizens frustrated with the city's lack of elected officials' leadership are convinced one of the cures is making it easier for voters to participate in the process.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Rod Thomson
  • August 19, 2010
MY VIEW: Why school accountability fails

The cuts in the Sarasota County School District's funding from the state and predictable tax hike by the School Board and school administration are the symptoms of a broad systemic breakdown in Florida education funding.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 12, 2010
OUR VIEW: Elections 2010: We recommend ...

This is the year. These are the elections to sweep out the status quo and start anew. Stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • August 5, 2010
OUR VIEW: A change of view on exemptions

Our friends in the Sarasota business community are not going to like what you're about to read: Our inclination is to vote "no" on the Economic Development Ad Valorem (Property) Tax Exemptions on the Aug. 24 primary ballot in Sarasota County and the city of Sarasota.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 29, 2010
OUR VIEW: Welcome to school board politics

Kathy James, a first-time candidate for public office, in this case for the Sarasota County School Board, has obtained quite a real-world education these past 14 years as the mother of four children. But not much of that experience prepared her for the sleaze she has trudged through while campaigning for office.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Jon Thaxton
  • July 29, 2010
MY VIEW: Amendment 4 will stymie our economy

It's completely unrealistic to expect voters to understand the often-arcane issues in comp-plan amendments. That's why we elect representatives.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 29, 2010
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The Sarasota Observer gives priority to letters of local interest and about local issues. The Observer will print all letters to the editor if it feels they are of general interest, but only if the letter is signed and the author's street address and phone number are given.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
    By
  • Observer Staff
  • July 22, 2010
OUR VIEW: Indoctrination by the state

Let's be blunt: Segments of Sarasota's political and intellectual elite - liberal and conservative alike - often regard Dr. Rich Swier (a doctor of education administration) as a conservative gadfly-extremist. And that's being polite.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Joe Gruters
  • July 22, 2010
MY VIEW: Obamacare taxes will destroy medical industry

The new excise tax on medical-device makers is a blatant strategy by the Obama administration to create a single-payer system.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
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