Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of February 27, 2026
Garbage pickup
To: Jim Haft
The current contract with Waste Management expires on June 30, 2027. The cost savings in this particular contract to go to...
A Bridge Too Far, A Span Too High: FDOT’s Towering Disregard for Longboat Key
STEVE REID
Editor & Publisher
sreid@lbknews.com
It was really the classical Greeks who started philosophical paradoxes. You could go all the way back to Heraclitus, but let’s...
State Pushes Mega-Bridges Forward as Longboat Loses Battle for ‘Modest’ Spans
STEVE REID
Editor & Publisher
sreid@lbknews.com
The era of the quaint barrier island drawbridge is rapidly coming to an end, and local officials are finding out the...