Longboat Key & Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of March 20, 2026
Police Chief Response to Policing—
—To: Editor
—I am authoring this letter in response to an article written by Steve Reid who unfairly misrepresented how...
On Patrol Longboat Key Police reports week of March 20, 2026
March 13
—12:49 p.m.
—Officer Mathis was dispatched to Harbourside Drive in reference to property damage. A complainant had reported that a vehicle had knocked down...
Bombs, Billionaires, and Reality TV: The High Cost of Trump’s Iranian Intervention
—It has become painfully obvious that our recent Iranian bombing campaign landed directly on a cohort of schoolchildren—the latest collateral damage, as Secretary of...
To Protect, Serve, or Pull over? Longboat’s “High Visibility” Policing Sparks Taxpayer Revolt
—It is something of a policing paradox. For decades, the Town of Longboat Key, its residents, its businesses, and the local real estate industry...
Scaled-Back Sarasota Art Center Praised; Tax Threats Cloud Future
—The vision for the new Sarasota Performing Arts Center (SPAC) has been dramatically scaled back, brought down to earth, and given a much leaner...