City Board Says Save It, Staff Says Let It Go: The Battle Over 1891 Wisteria Street
A modest one-story house on Wisteria Street, built when Sarasota was still riding the 1920s land boom, has become the center of a preservation...
Freeze Now, Ask in November: Why Sarasota Stopped Hiring, and What It Means for Longboat, Lido and Downtown
The City of Sarasota has stopped filling jobs. The county has revived a playbook it wrote during the Great Recession. Both are bracing for...
Not Just Sarasota: Across Florida, Governments Are Freezing Hiring Before the November Tax Vote
From Citrus County to Leon to Fort Myers, Florida governments are freezing hiring and drafting severance plans months before a single vote is cast...
Scientists Pinpoint Disease-Resistant Star Corals to Save Florida’s Reefs
By exposing over 150 genetically distinct corals to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, researchers have identified 12 robust survivors that could serve as the...
Sarasota Sailing Squadron Seeks City’s Vote for a New Lease and Youth Sailing Center
On almost any bright morning off the northern tip of City Island, the same small, everyday miracle plays out on the water. A scatter...
St. Regis Denies Nearly Every Word of Longboat’s Case, Raises Six Defenses, and a Judge Sets the Arch Trial for January 2028
For a year, Chuck Whittall fought the Town of Longboat Key with photographs.He fought it from a Town Hall podium, from the driver’s seat...
St. Armands is Swimming in Seafood
A crab shack for the old Tommy Bahama. Tommy Bahama for the old Shore. And Shore rebuilding itself from the slab up in flood-proof...
The Ballot and the Bay: Five Candidates, Two Seats, and a City With Issues
A five-way primary for two at-large seats, an island-defining county race a jurisdiction away, and a November tax question that could quietly reorder the...
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...