This is my 100th golf article I have…

My husband and I have never been snowbirds, rather the type to stay put, batten down the hatches and growl at the weather.
GLORIA RASKIN
Contributing Columnist
raskin@lbknews.com
I am not sure how I landed in Longboat Key. I think it was probably 10 years ago when I first heard about Longboat Key from a creative writing teacher’s class. [...]

Do they want us to make judgments based on political promises or newspaper ads? Is whoever is glibbest at answering questions — trick or otherwise — the best choice to make the critical decisions facing this community today?

JIM BROWN
Contributing Columnist
brown@lbknews.com
The Longboat Key Public Interest Committee, better known as PIC, has come out against the [...]

It is beginning to look like the Town Commission will do anything including the reading aloud of every bit of testimony concerning the Longboat Key Club expansion rather than make a decision.

Last week’s LBK News carried a letter from Keith Peterson, a visitor from Great Britain. He wrote, among other things, “It is laudable to give space to a variety of views as epitomized by this week’s (Feb. 12 edition) Key Opinion by Tom Burgum about Global Warming.” Mr. Peterson’s opinion of my column could lead one to believe he thinks it should be an exception to the “It’s-laudable-to-give-space-to-a-variety-of-views” rule.

Where there is smoke, there must be fire, And lives must not be lost. A safe solution should require A reasonable cost.

It was Daniel Webster who reputedly said:“Life, liberty and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.”

Witnessing the meanderings of the Longboat Key Club application is so grueling and migraine-inducing that Jean Paul Sartre will wake from the dead and rewrite “No Exit” as one interminable Commission hearing. It is like driving railroad spikes into each side of your head. And no end is in sight.

Kudos to Betty Blair, who is a veteran of Longboat politics and now resides in Sarasota. Betty was formerly the head honcho of PIC. Recently Betty sent a letter of resignation to that organization due to their admonishment

We read commentaries about movies, theatre, TV shows, etc., why not elected officials. I’ll go over each, alphabetically. You may not agree, depending upon your personal likes or dislikes, but I plan on stating my opinion.

“And it came to pass that the whole earth had one language, and men found a plain in the land of Shinar and decided to settle there…

“And they said to one another, ‘Come, let us build a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves…”

“And the Lord came down and was displeased that the tower was not built for the worship of God, but for the glory of man, and so He confused their language so that they could not understand one another’s speech and scattered them over the face of the earth.”

And that is why today, we must press one for English and two for Spanish.