Castle In The Sky Or Just Another Missed Opportunity?
Update: Arbor Village will proceed as planned and provide low-income housing to the City of Sarasota residents. A 3-2 vote to allow it to go forward on Monday night at… Read more »
Category: Sarasota
Money to Burn and the Cost of the Homeless
Reprinted from SRQ Daily, Nov. 5, 2016 PBS – A report on the Homeless It was a year ago this week that PBS came to Sarasota to report on the… Read more »
Sarasota’s Shell Game
Originally published for SRQ Daily A photo was posted on social media this week that showed the bicycle racks out in front of the Selby Library. It was actually hard to… Read more »
Weakening the Safeguards Protecting Our Schools
Originally published in SRQ Daily Our public school systems were set up with the idea every child deserved an education, no matter into what socio-economic status they fell. Then we… Read more »
A Day at the Races
If you are a political junkie like I am, then the biggest races to watch are not on the national stage but the local ones. Let’s jump right in. House… Read more »
Paving Paradise
There is much upset this week over the county’s decision to allow Whole Foods Supermarket to purchase and pave over 4.5 acres of protected wetlands at University and Honore. What… Read more »
When Discrimination is Your Religion: Florida House Bill HB 401
It was January 2013 when an Oregon LGBT couple filed a complaint against an Oregon baker for refusing to allow them to purchase a cake for their wedding. The case… Read more »
Pro-Birth Vs. Pro-Life
A young pregnant woman one week ago went into our local health department for care. Homeless and unemployed, her options were limited. One week later, she is now receiving regular prenatal… Read more »
Homelessness, the Law, and Fla Guardianship
It can’t be louder than this Sarasota Tiger Bay held a panel this past Thursday featuring the Constitutional Offices of our county. And what some might think would be a… Read more »
Never Let A Scandal Go To Waste
Like a page out of the Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority play book, and just in time for the Republican debates, the candidates were handed a gift from…well, Live Action. The… Read more »
Can Pilon Hold Onto District 72?
This past Wednesday, Chair of the Republican Party of Sarasota, Joe Gruters, sat down with Jacob Ogles, Senior Editor of SRQ Magazine, and myself on my radio show, The Nilon… Read more »
What You Missed Last Week In Politics
Susan Chapman’s long awaited court trial has been postponed due to an over crowding of the court docket. It seems most likely to be scheduled for August, but October has… Read more »
The Young Faces of the Sarasota Democratic Party
In an effort that we haven’t seen before with the latest city commission races, we have to be wondering what is the difference. Who are the young faces on the… Read more »
Senator Nancy Detert – the Gatekeeper
Almost a year ago, a rumor started to take root that Florida Senator Nancy Detert would vacate her seat two years before she was termed out because of her interest… Read more »
The Librarian’s Opus
Spending time in the school libraries was something I cherished. It was the only place I could go to read a book of my choosing. The person in charge was… Read more »