Editorial

There are many sides, but no winners in the battle over residential noise on Anna Maria Island. On one side are full-time residents who...

Part of a true sportsman’s enjoyment of any sport is knowing you have won or lost while playing by the rules. Florida’s duck hunting rules...

Bradenton Beach City Commission Ralph Cole Marilyn Maro Holmes Beach City Commission Pat Morton Holmes Beach Mayor Judy Holmes Titsworth Holmes Beach Charter Review Commission (vote for up to five) Claudia Carlson Nancy Deal Thomas...

Remember that movie where the Russians overrun a little beach community? Well, it happened last week. It’s hard to believe that a weekly newspaper in paradise...

By Katie Tripp, Ph.D. Director of Science & Conservation, Save the Manatee Club Martin County, located along Florida's southeast coast, adopted the term "Lost Summer" in...

Election season is upon us, and already the gloves are coming off between candidates and between some candidates and the public. The first ballot...

National Security Americans consume 25 percent of the world's produced oil, but our nation holds less than 3 percent of the world's proven oil...

Congratulations to The Anna Maria Island Privateers for staging another great Fourth of July parade, bringing together neighbors and visitors for a wonderful day...

The news media “is the enemy of the American people.” President Donald J. Trump Dear Mr. President: I first read that quote last year when you sent...

Lately it seems that a challenge is issued every few days against the media. Someone is always trying to silence our voices, the voices...

For as many years as we have had a free press, journalists have been protected by an unwritten code that essentially says, “Don’t slay...

A long, long time ago at a newspaper not so far away, two Tampa Tribune reporters did their job and wrote some stories. One was...

Kudos to the staff of the Annapolis, Md.-based Capital Gazette for putting out a newspaper the morning after five of their friends and co-workers...

Knowing they were potentially subjecting the city to another lawsuit, four of Bradenton Beach’s five city commission members displayed political courage last week when...

It was a small reminder, really. A simple gesture, intended to make us think about something unthinkable and remember that which we might rather forget. Bradenton...