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  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 29, 2012
Our View: Immoral corporate welfare

Maybe a good roundhouse to their proboscises might knock some sense into them.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Observer Staff |
  • March 14, 2012
Our View: Colony needs a new knight

There is a simple solution to the legal morass that is killing the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort: Money.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • January 2, 2013
Looking ahead: Business and tourism

The patterns of season are tough to predict, but indicators so far point to a strong season for hotels and businesses.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Pam Eubanks |
  • February 6, 2013
How Will We Grow? Activity Centers

Manatee County planning officials are evaluating development in the community and how to ensure growth pays for the infrastructure improvements - water, sewer and other services - that come along with it.

  • East County
  • Neighbors
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • June 2, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Hello, is it me you're looking for?

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • January 29, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Out of nowhere . . .

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • February 12, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: Please just go away

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • March 10, 2020
Longboat Key Cops Corner: That needs to be fixed

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Eric Garwood |
  • January 16, 2019
Cops Corner: No one suspicious around here

Police reports from around Longboat Key.

  • Longboat Key
  • Cops Corner
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • July 26, 2019
Binge Blog: One giant leap

Hulu's "Veronica Mars" and Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" are this week's Sarasota Observer Binge Blog picks by reporter Ryan Kohn.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Ryan Kohn |
  • October 23, 2018
Cringe Blog: In which we finally get to zombies

"Zombieland," starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abagail Breslin, and "Mindhunter," starring Jonathan Groff, Anna Torv and Cameron Britton, are this week's spook-tacular recommendations.

  • Arts + Entertainment
  • Reviews
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • December 8, 2016
Three down, six to go

Believe it or not, 2016 actually was a year of (some) progress on the redevelopment of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort. But sorry, the hurdles are still substantial.

  • Longboat Key
  • Opinion
  • By Robin Hartill |
  • October 23, 2013
ULI shares first impressions

The Urban Land Institute saw both decadence and decay during a bus tour of the island.

  • Longboat Key
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 11, 2025
More multifamily coming to Sarasota's Main Street

A 142-unit mix of condos and apartments is planned for the site of the former Michael Saunders offices at Main Street and Osprey Avenue.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Monica Roman Gagnier |
  • April 21, 2025
Sarasota Ballet tries to catch Ashton's 'Wedding Bouquet'

Not all the guests are pleased about the nuptials, the dog least of all.

  • Arts + Culture
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • March 10, 2025
Plan submitted for Sarasota Checkers site redevelopment

The plan to build 22 apartments and a restaurant on the former Checkers site at East Avenue and Ringling Boulevard raised the question: When is a wall not considered building?

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 21, 2025
Sarasota Square Mall demolition begins

Developer Torburn Partners begins tearing down Sarasota Sauare Mall for a redevelopment to include up to 1,200 apartments and 690,000 square feet of commercial space on the South Tamiami Trail site.

  • Sarasota
  • News
  • By Robert Plunket |
  • November 3, 2023
Architecture meets art in $12M Gulf-front home on Casey Key

This exquisite home on Casey Key, designed by Carl Abbott, takes its inspiration from cutting-edge modernism and ancient Mayan pyramids.

  • Siesta Key
  • Neighbors
  • By Adrian Moore |
  • November 15, 2023
Biden botches again: On AI

The president’s executive order to regulate AI is the wrong path. It will create new bureaucracies and stifle positive innovation.

  • Sarasota
  • Opinion
  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • February 28, 2024
371 affordable housing units planned for site near Newtown

The Sarasota project is part of a nearly 1,500-unit multifamily development that will include a grocery store and pharmacy on 114 acres of county land at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Tuttle Avenue.

  • Sarasota
  • News
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