The COVID-19 pandemic is the scariest thing most of us have faced.
OUR POSITION: It often takes a crisis or tragedy to bring people together and that’s what we are starting to see, hoping to see, here as the COVID-19 virus takes its toll.
Sun Newspapers apologizes to our readers, many who were incensed about a letter to the editor in Sunday’s edition.
Panic buying is sweeping the nation and Southwest Florida appears to be no exception.
After we reported in January on the demand from the Freedom From Religion Foundation that the city discontinue invocations at Council meetings, the mayor and Council members were deluged with emails on the issue.
There’s a conspiracy theory for everything these days, and the coronavirus is no exception.
People suspected of having coronavirus belong in isolation. Information about them does not.
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OUR POSITION: We should all be concerned and cautious, but there is no need to panic about the COVID-19 virus.
OUR POSITION: There is still time for the public to let legislators know they want to be able to read public notices in their newspaper.
The Sarasota County School Board voted last week to pay nearly $177,000 to a risk consulting firm to develop a better sexual harassment policy and conduct training on it.
The Florida House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up a bill Tuesday that could impact the future of New College of Florida in Sarasota and its students. The bill would merge New College with Florida State University, presumably to save money and enable more oversight and more e…
OUR POSITION: The Florida Legislature is closer to passing laws to delete public notices from newspapers and that would be a blow to transparency and further burden the public’s accessibility to information.
‘The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.”
Another of Venice’s lions passed away this week.
It’s easy to be impressed when you see the approval ratings and hear the accolades for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Have you heard about the city’s plan to tear all the trees out of Venezia Park and turn it into an active park?
OUR POSITION: New safeguards aside, Florida is still under the siege of phosphate mining years after some operations have been shut down.
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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.
Here’s today’s vocabulary quiz.
OUR POSITION: There are avenues to turn to for help, but caregivers still find themselves in difficult and challenging situations in deciding best course for their loved ones.
Sarasota County School District Chief Operating Officer Jeff Maultsby resigned Monday rather than challenge Superintendent Todd Bowden’s decision to fire him.
Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that City Council Member Bob Daniels works hard at his job every day.
Here’s how we see interviews with Venice City Council candidates: There’s an opening in our municipal corporation; why are you the best qualified person to fill it?
If money talks, some have said, in politics it shouts.
Venice voters have a choice between two good candidates for City Council Seat 6: Tim Brady and Joe Neunder.
Florida, the Sunshine State, was the first in the nation to pass an open-government law, in 1967. It’s known as the Government in the Sunshine Law.
Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that City Council Member Bob Daniels works hard at his job every day.
Venice voters have a choice between two good candidates for City Council Seat 6: Tim Brady and Joe Neunder.
Here’s how we see interviews with Venice City Council candidates: There’s an opening in our municipal corporation; why are you the best qualified person to fill it?
OUR POSITION: Overall, the Florida Legislature fared poorly when scored for its protection of the public’s right to information.
OUR POSITION: The state has to put the safety of the Peace River first when it draws up a permit dictating how to control runoff from Mosaic’s Bartow mines.