Today we have a cell tower policy so strict it is the legislative equivalent of saying you can only have a child by virgin birth. Unfortunately, that, too, is under assault.

I saw my face reflected in the mirror that looms in the foyer by the kitchen. I was tired, unshaven and looked like a derelict George Clooney in the final scenes of The Perfect Storm before the boat goes under.

In real democracy, 45% of the board would represent the minority, meaning three out of seven commissioners. Because everyone votes for everyone on Longboat Key and we are running now as slates, we are going to see more and more one-dimensional Commissions excited that “they will now get things done.”

At some point owners will see that their opportunity to renovate inexpensively on-the-fly is over. That was Klauber’s proposal and they followed a different piper.

Lenobel embodied the very thing we all want in a leader — the strength and wisdom to lead a ship — not the flailing of an individual oarsman rowing away with his back turned to the future.

When Longboat Key’s beauty slips into the sunset, we can all just droop our heads as we stare from the end of our newly constructed groin that will be resemble a horrendous scar on the forehead of a otherwise perfect face.

Last evening I witnessed an interesting spectacle at the end the Town Commission meeting, in the form of an emotional reaction by the commissioners to the perceived mistreatment of Commissioner Lynn Larson at the hands of a guest columnist in the Longboat Key News, and thus by extension to the editor of the paper, Steve Reid

If the town of Longboat Key is going to take the idea of the Vision Plan seriously, then we have to address the little details that make Longboat, Longboat before we try and move mountains and affect the markets