By Bob Frederickson From Winston Churchill to Woody Guthrie Looking Behind the Numbers Remember State Attorney General Pam Bondi’s campaign ad this past fall touting her office’s successful efforts to shut down the pill mills that had taken root like Read More
By Rodger Skidmore Seek, and ye shall find – Luke 11:9 / Matthew 7:7 / Google 3.0 One nice thing about Google is that when you look for something you will find it. Another nice thing about Google is that Read More
by Debbie Flessner Teens in a jeep try to scale a house By all appearances, it seemed that the two teens shown in the picture were trying to drive right up onto the foundation of a home that was being Read More
By Bob Frederickson From Unanticipated Medical Procedures to Working in the Sunshine The Rising Cost of Health Care A Lakewood Ranch Medical Center ER nurse faces theft charges for allegedly lifting the credit card numbers of patients who were undergoing Read More
Sheriff’s Report Nov. 18- Dec. 15,2014 There were a total of 26 crimes reported on the Key from 11/18-12/15/14 11/16/14: Grand Theft/Felony 200 Block Tenacity Lane A man called the Sheriff’s Department to report the theft of his Read More
By Bob Frederickson From Jamming the Transmission to Signs of the Times And the Award for PR Blunder of the Month Goes to… The Marriott Hotel chain, manager of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville for trying to squeeze the Read More
By Emy Stein When Siesta Key residents Alex and Nick Miller sent a letter to brothers and co-founders of Life is good®, Bert and John Jacobs, they didn’t realize they’d both end up on the company’s upper management’s “Most Read More
Siesta Key Association meeting notes By Diana Colson COMMUNITY REPORTS: Sheriff’s Office— Sgt. Scott Osborne reported “Avenida De Mayo is a hot area: several parking citations have been issued. A question was posed to Sgt. Osborne regarding regulations pertaining to Read More
By Rodger Skidmore End of summer cocktail As all good drinkers know, a cocktail is a mixture of ingredients which, if consumed in sufficient quantities, can cause a heap of trouble. North Lido Beach is, on and off, suffering from Read More
By Debbie Flessner/Emy Stein Siesta Key Village Maintenance Corporation (SKVMC) doesn’t renew current landscape maintenance contract Citing a “decline in service,” Mark Smith, chairman of the SKVMC, announced that the group is not interested in renewing Championship Landscape Maintenance Professionals’ Read More
