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Lofty Plans, Deep Divide: Longboat Key Fights State’s Vision for a Towering Bridge

—For the residents of Longboat Key, the nearly 70-year-old...

Turning Down the Volume: Sarasota Commissions Noise Study Amidst Corvette Revvers and “Cranky Neighbors”

—Between the thumping bass of downtown nightlife, the roar...

How a 1930s Bungalow is Ground Zero in Sarasota’s Battle Over Preservation

—The ongoing tug-of-war for Sarasota’s soul was on full...

Sarasota Rejects 50% Parking Rate Hike, Opts for Extended Hours, Fines to Offset $2.8M

—Facing a ballooning multimillion-dollar deficit in its parking program,...

Sarasota’s Record Turtle Numbers Mask a Silent Crisis

The numbers emerging from Sarasota’s barrier islands this year are nothing short of historic. On Longboat Key, researchers documented 1,473 nests in the 2025...

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...

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Turning Down the Volume: Sarasota Commissions Noise Study Amidst Corvette Revvers and “Cranky Neighbors”

—Between the thumping bass of downtown nightlife, the roar...

How a 1930s Bungalow is Ground Zero in Sarasota’s Battle Over Preservation

—The ongoing tug-of-war for Sarasota’s soul was on full...

Sarasota Rejects 50% Parking Rate Hike, Opts for Extended Hours, Fines to Offset $2.8M

—Facing a ballooning multimillion-dollar deficit in its parking program,...

Etch-a-Sketch Empire: The True Cost of an Aimless War, from Hormuz to Longboat Key

—Here on the barrier islands, the illusion of insulation...
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