On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of December 19, 2025
Dec. 12
Disturbance
7:06 p.m.
Officer Miklos, Officer Tillman and Officer Martinson were dispatched to the 3600 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive in reference to a...
Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of December 19, 2025
Sarasota street maintenance
To: Sarasota City Commission
When was the last time you walked around downtown? I don’t mean just Main Street or the popular shopping...
Paradise, Marked Down… Why Longboat Key’s Private Boom is the Town’s Public Bust
STEVE REID
Editor & Publisher
sreid@lbknews.com
On the third floor of a gleaming condominium complex overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, there is a unit that exists in...
Shore’s Gambit in a Graveyard of Big Ideas
STEVE REID
Editor & Publisher
sreid@lbknews.com
If history is any guide, the Shore Restaurant’s new proposal for a three-story, mixed-use complex on St. Armands Circle is sailing...
The Case for Funding the Circle Resiliency Plan
S.W AND RICH HERMANSEN
Staff Writers
wine@lbknews.com
Economics does not have an agreed upon solution for problems of who pays taxes and who receives government benefits. Decisions...