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Sarasota | Opinion

  • 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.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • 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.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • April 8, 2010
Our View

Time to show our support

  • Sarasota
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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • 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

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • 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.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • March 25, 2010
Our View

Seeds of secession

  • Sarasota
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  • March 18, 2010
Our View

Why the stimulus is a stimu-not

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

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

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • March 11, 2010
Letter to the Editor 3.11.10

Letter to the Editor 3.11.10

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Rod Thomson
  • March 11, 2010
My view: More money doesn't boost scores

A lot of Sarasota County voters who go to the polls Tuesday may vote in favor of the extending the school tax for the wrong reason.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • March 11, 2010
Our view: The never-ending debate

Many supporters of public education find it heretical for anyone not to support extending the one-mill school property tax in Sarasota County.

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  • Observer Staff
  • March 4, 2010
Our View: Our 'in-the-margin' governor

"Government in the margins" certainly makes it easier to get elected or re-elected, but it does little to address what should be addressed.

  • Sarasota
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  • Observer Staff
  • February 25, 2010
OUR VIEW: Public education fatally flawed

American culture apparently has embedded the idea, irrevocably, that the education of our children is an obligation of the State.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
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