For 30 years now, fishermen in Florida have had to watch the behemoths of the Gulf swim away — with nary a thought of pulling one into the boa…
OUR POSITION: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced this week that he will ask the Legislature to cut out much of the testing students are subje…
OUR POSITION: A program to help renters stay in their homes is in shambles in Florida and soaring costs for renters threaten to increase the h…
OUR POSITION: Twenty years later, what don’t we know about the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S.?
OUR POSITION: Americans should welcome with open arms the refugees from Afghanistan who will be making their home in the USA
OUR POSITION: Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran is determined to punish school boards who don’t agree with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ou…
OUR POSITION: The good news — that River Road construction is set to begin — couldn’t have come soon enough.
OUR POSITION: We believe the missing ingredient in both Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., is the commitment to serving constituents.
OUR POSITION: If we’re able, we should do what we can to help the people in Haiti.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with Florida agencies more than complicit, made a mistake in 2017 when they took the manatee off the list …
OUR POSITION: A recent report disputes Gov. Ron DeSantis and social media posts about COVID-19 being spread by infected immigrants.
OUR POSITION: Is gypsum in roadways a bad idea and are fertilizer gypstacks a threat to the state’s environment? Mosaic says no.
OUR POSITION: Florida’s failure to distribute federal money to help pandemic victims pay back rent has just exacerbated the problem.
OUR POSITION: We need to see more leadership, not only out of Tallahassee and Gov. Ron DeSantis, but from local elected officials and communit…
OUR POSITION: The legislation provides an important, but temporary means of support to help newspapers with needed transition, and it deserves…
OUR POSITION: A new state law seems to have good intentions to force more transparency on use of force incidents in Florida police arrests but…
OUR POSITION: Whether they were the right moves or not, Gov. Ron DeSantis surprised his Republican colleagues in the Legislature last week wit…
We know that most politicians have two major goals: 1) raising money and 2) getting re-elected, or getting elected to a different, usually hig…
OUR POSITION: More than 100 new laws are officially being observed as of July 1 in Florida. Do you know what they are?
OUR POSITION: Anyone planning to do their own fireworks show this weekend must be alert to the dangers involved.
OUR POSITION: We won’t get tired of warning those who have rejected getting the COVID-19 vaccination what danger they and their families could be in.
OUR POSITION: Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler recently appeared on FOX News to blast teaching Critical Race Theory in schools and…
OUR POSITION: Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman appears to be taking all the right steps to continue the department’s reputation for solid …
Remember how relieved and happy so many of us were to hear funding for widening River Road between U.S. 41 and Interstate 75 was approved?
On Thursday, June 3, Florida had 1,872 new COVID-19 cases, with a positivity rate of 3.15%, 49 deaths and 1,743 people hospitalized statewide …
OUR POSITION: Sarasota County Area Transit gets kudos for trying something new with curb-to-curb service. Let’s make sure it works.
OUR POSITION: It’s time to revert to water-saving mode and, while you’re at it, take extra precautions to avoid starting a fire and to protect…
OUR POSITION: War continues to take its toll on American veterans even after the fighting has stopped.
