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  • April 29, 2010
Letters to the editor

Stadium: House of cards; Wrong kind of change

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • April 22, 2010
Our View

Sadly, smoking guns no surprise

  • Sarasota
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  • April 15, 2010
Our view

Candidate with a vision - imagine that for Sarasota

  • Sarasota
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  • April 15, 2010
Our View

Sign Senate Bill 6

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  • April 15, 2010
Letters to the editor

To send in your letters, please e-mail them to [email protected], or mail them to The Sarasota Observer, 1517 State Street, Sarasota, 34236. 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. The editor reserves the right to condense letters.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Kerry Kirschner
  • April 14, 2010
My View: New investment has helped region flourish

The Argus Foundation is urging the town of Longboat Key and the Longboat Key Club and Resort to work together to bring about the club's redevelopment.

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  • By Rod Thomson
  • April 8, 2010
My View: Race to federal control of schools

The problem with Race to the Top school reform is not the purported goals, which are laudable, but the reality revealed in the grant process.

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  • April 8, 2010
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Time to show our support

  • Sarasota
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  • April 1, 2010
Surely we jest!

Welcome to our first April Fools' issue!

  • Sarasota
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  • April 1, 2010
Our View

Focus on the business climate

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  • By Rod Thomson
  • March 25, 2010
My View: Sarasota County-media empire

Like other municipalities, Sarasota County is building a multimedia conglomerate at taxpayer expense. Don't think there is no propaganda.

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  • March 25, 2010
Our View

Seeds of secession

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  • March 18, 2010
Our View

Why the stimulus is a stimu-not

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  • By Mayor Richard Clapp
  • March 18, 2010
My View

The City Commission says it will focus on the following activities for the next two years.

  • Sarasota
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  • By Allison Banko
  • March 11, 2010
My View

Voting yes on the 1-mill referendum is a no-brainer

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