Fair or foul?
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...
The Sun election recommendations
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...
The Russians are coming
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...
Red tides, lost summers
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...
Valuing civility
Election season is upon us, and already the gloves are coming off between candidates and between some candidates and the public. The first ballot...
ManaSota-88’s 10 reasons not to drill for oil offshore of Florida
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...
Good times
Congratulations to The Anna Maria Island Privateers for staging another great Fourth of July parade, bringing together neighbors and visitors for a wonderful day...
I am the media
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...
Speaking for the silent
Lately it seems that a challenge is issued every few days against the media. Someone is always trying to silence our voices, the voices...
Slaying the messenger
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...
Part of the job
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...
Journalism at its finest
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...
Follow the charter
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...
A simple gesture
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...
Meeting the Challenge
The kindness of strangers was on full view last week in the 2018 Giving Challenge.
The philanthropic fundraiser generated a little more than $11.7 million...