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The Sarasota County School Board deserves credit for deciding Tuesday to bring in Kroll, a risk management firm, to review its sexual harassment policies and conduct training.
The Atlanta Braves became America’s Team, Major League Baseball edition, thanks to having their games carried on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), owned by team owner Ted Turner.
The Venice City Council’s strategic planning sessions are almost entirely devoted to setting policies and priorities. This year, however, it sounds as though some time will be spent on how the Council does things, too, perhaps with an eye toward more productive, more efficient meetings.
OUR POSITION: The 2020 Florida Legislature opens for business Tuesday with 60 days to tackle a myriad of concerns that impact constituents.
OUR POSITION: Texting while driving can earn you a ticket now, but the consequences can be much more serious.
In October, a routine inspection of a phosphate manufacturing operation in Bartow found a pool of water where no water should be. It was determined to be seepage at an area where a gypstack meets cooling ponds and ditches in the complex campus operation.
OUR POSITION: The Sarasota County School Board was smart to bypass a potentially lengthy search to name Mitsi Corcoran its interim superintendent.
Our position: We should all try to take the cheer and holiday spirit we feel today and carry a piece of that over into every day of the new year.
Holiday parties and family meals for Christmas are officially endangered.
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920. Going on 100 years later an amendment that would guarantee them equal rights still remains one state short of ratification.
You’d have had to be on another planet for the last several years not to be aware that all is not well on Planet Earth.
OUR POSITION: Sarasota County put unlicensed contractors on notice.
In February it will be nine years since Sarasota County was sued by hospitals seeking reimbursement for indigent care they’ve provided.
Lawyers, start your meters.
Step one: Sever ties with Superintendent Todd Bowden. Check.
Area oldtimers — and timers not quite so old — will readily remember when Venice Theatre’s season consisted of four productions presented from January through April.
The Sarasota County Commission decided to try to equalize the population in the county’s five districts this year to avoid a potential lawsuit after next year’s election.
OUR POSITION: Local hospitals are holding their own when it comes to safety and providing good care for patients.
The terms on which Sarasota County Schools Superintendent Todd Bowden is now willing to leave the job are vastly different from the ones he offered last week.
On the first anniversary of Florida’s passage of Amendment 4, the lawyers were back in court, arguing over what it meant and how to implement it.