Today one in five American households is multi-generational. The only segment of the new house market that is growing is the “accordion” home designed to accommodate several generations of a family living together in one structure. Parents with children under 21 are not included when counting multi-generational households in America.

He brushed by energy policy with a simple statement that, “I’ll not walk away from the promise of clean energy.”

I think Longboat Key politics have become a community theatre of the absurd.

The facts are the facts, and the public can make up its own collective mind as to the efficacy of any one of the actions taken.

Judges don’t dwell in ‘Plannerland’ and it is not their role to decide on the merits of local land use policies, yet this is really the crux of the issue.

If you live in a rural part of the world, you will view your world differently than urban dwellers.

I claim no special political insight. I do claim to be an observer of the political scene…

If revisions should in any way convey the appearance of making changes just so one developer can benefit, it will lead nowhere except to more bitterness and a less inviting place to live.

We are willing to ignore, twist, bend and break our rules for certain VIP applicants, while the bottom feeders get treated as if they have no standing or significance — they are the Rosa Parks of our business community.

We continue to think we are just figures in a Norman Rockwell painting, but as the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements both demonstrate, the natives are getting restless.