Guest column
June 19, 2018
A little history
I’m amazed at those who continue to cloak themselves in the Pollyanna notion that the Anna Maria City Pier should be repaired. A notion that last week was furthered by this newspaper in The Sun surve…
May 15, 2018
Get in the game
By Jack Clarke
Can you name your city commissioners? Have you made the effort to speak in person to any of them?
Many of your elected officials are open to your ideas and thoughts, many less so…
January 30, 2018
A wake up call on the proposed Cortez Bridge
By Dr. Mary Fulford Green
It is believed that if you do not know your history, you are apt to repeat it. I am one who is looking forward to the same outcome for the new Cortez Bridge as in 1995 –…
December 5, 2017
Grateful on Thanksgiving
I spent a couple of hours on Thanksgiving morning at Bayfront Park in Anna Maria with the former employees of the City Pier Restaurant and bait shop. The time provided me with a deeper understanding…
April 13, 2017
Controversial action puts manatees in harms’ way
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has issued its final rule to downgrade the status of the West Indian manatee from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The rul…
February 6, 2017
Why I marched in the Women’s March
On Saturday, Jan. 21, I traveled to Washington, D.C., where I marched in the Women’s March along with one of my daughters, two of my granddaughters, two old friends (fellow authors of “Saving the Bes…









