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 reserves. As a matter of national policy, it seem…
Congratulations to The Anna Maria Island Privateers for staging another great Fourth of July parade, bringing together neighbors and visitors for a wonderful day and chance to celebrate our great cou…
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 it out on your Twitter account. To be honest…
Lately it seems that a challenge is issued every few days against the media. Someone is always trying to silence our voices, the voices that our country’s Constitution is supposed to protect. Challen…
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 the messenger.”
That code was broken yesterday when a gunman…
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 were murdered by a disgruntled reader who had previou…
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 they stood up to Keep Our Resid…
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…
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 couple Paul and Ellen Devine h…
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…
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