Fair and balanced in this case is simply a phrase meant to hide Mr. Obama’s desire to redistribute the accumulated wealth of the country.

‘If wishes and buts were candy and nuts, Republicans would have a merry Christmas.’

If the White House is correct, Obamacare might be the only non-tax reform bill ever to begin with the hiring of more than 14,500 new IRS agents whose principal mission in life is determining whether your insurance policy needs to be taxed

Following last Tuesday’s disastrous election — disastrous for unions that is — the airwaves and Internet have been filled with attempts to find the meaning of what Wisconsin did and how it may have damaged Mr. Obama

Ultimately, they will probably restore the special overlay district that no property owner in the putative district has publicly requested or seems to want.

The time has come for the town to work with the taxpayers to create a solution that will allow the surrounding 500 residences to coalesce as a neighborhood, free of the specter of an abandoned Whitney Beach Plaza, gas station and bank building.

Longboat Key could see a master-plan park developed at the current Bayfront site as a phased initiative toward a community center sooner than later.
That idea was made by Commissioner Phill Younger, who made two strong initiatives at the Thursday Workshop meeting.

At their regular meeting last month, six out of seven of the commissioners governing Longboat Key gave high marks to our interim town manager, David Bullock. (The seventh commissioner, Hal Lenobel, presented nothing negative, but felt that after only 90 days of service, it was too early for a meaningful evaluation.)

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

President Obama is switching his strategy. Blaming the weather, European debt, the Arab Spring, the Republican minority in Washington, and various acts of God got tiresome before it became very effective