Antunes should pay up, or pipe down
It is becoming a too familiar sight — the sad symbiosis between news organizations desperate for a story and a fading provocateur desperately clinging to fleeting celebrity. It was played out yet again...
View ArticleMore controversy at City Hall
What transforms a simple infraction, a seemingly minor deficiency, into potentially yet another scandal to rock City Hall, and erode the confidence of citizens in their government? As reported recently...
View ArticleHealth care decision a vital first step
On June 29, the Supreme Court of the United States released its long-awaited decision in the several cases aggregated as Florida, et al v. Department of Health and Human Services, et al. In a 5-4...
View ArticleJuly Fourth is about rights
Independence Day is our most sacred national holiday. It was ordained as a day of celebration, but also one of sober reflection upon the causes that led prominent personages in 1776 to risk their...
View ArticleTo the City Commission: Enough is enough!
The commissioners for the City of Sarasota should make one action front-and-center at their meeting on Monday, July 16: Appoint Marlon Brown as the next city manager (assuming he still would take the...
View ArticleHalf a quote is worse than none
Almost everyone reading this has, in their lifetime, said, “I love Satan.” At least, that’s what the Republican Party might want us to believe. You see, everyone has uttered the first-person singular...
View ArticleVote Hines for county commissioner
The race to fill the seat of County Commissioner Jon Thaxton, who is prevented from seeking re-election because of the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling this spring on term limits, appears to be a battle...
View ArticleCity’s solution is simple
As stated already in several articles by City Editor Stan Zimmerman, including one in this week’s edition, the charter for the City of Sarasota requires that the city manager, the city finance director...
View ArticleVoters’ guide for Election Day 2012
Re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States If the economy during the last half of George W. Bush’s second term could be compared to a bathtub full of water, then Bush pulled the drain plug...
View ArticleRepublican Party of Sarasota County’s anti-Planned Parenthood campaign...
In an email blast sent out late in the evening of Aug. 19, the Republican Party of Sarasota County (RPOS), over the signature of party Chairman Joe Gruters, announced that a “Defund Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleEnd discrimination against women
Today is International Women’s Day. Sadly, rather than being solely a worldwide recognition of the complex and vital contribution that women and feminine power make to the sustentation of humanity, it...
View ArticleOur recommendations to voters
We strongly urge everyone to vote either by mail (with a drop-off at the elections office if you are apprehensive about the mail) or by early voting in one of the many locations throughout the county....
View ArticleVote ‘No’ on County Commission’s March 8 repeal of Single-Member Districts
Most of us have been in a store at one time or another when a young child has thrown himself down on the floor, kicking and crying because his mother would not give him what he wants. Certainly, the...
View ArticlePlease retire Hagen Brody from politics
Editorial It may seem quaint to some to believe that public service is just that: Service one renders for the common good, with no expectation of reward or riches; only the satisfying approbation of...
View ArticleIn their mishandling of affordable housing initiatives, city commissioners...
Editorial We knew that one Sarasota city commissioner had designs on becoming a Sarasota County commissioner. Even though Hagen Brody failed in that quest, losing in the August Primary, he and three of...
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