Easy to Build, Hard to Keep — Longboat Library has a Cost Philanthropy Cannot Cover
The county has advanced the design. Donors have met their pledge. But the recurring expense of keeping the doors open runs on the very...
How a Sarasota Barrier-Island Library and a $288 Million Bayfront Stage Came to Share the Same Fate
The two projects could hardly differ more in scale. One is a $14.5 million library for several thousand island residents; the other is a...