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Our reporter explains the role these campaign vehicles play in local elections.

Budget crunch also prompts other proposals: higher athletic fees and charging more for community use of school space.

Report examines local lawmakers’ voting records on state preemption.

On Tuesday, the budget-pressed Sarasota School Board will discuss revenue generation, and the City of Sarasota Historic Preservation Board will get an update on the appeal to a luxury developer’s plant to tear down US Garage. On Wednesday, there will be a community workshop about the plan to establish a luxury car club in Gillespie Park.

The gerrymandered District 16 now includes Manatee, DeSoto, Hardee and parts of Polk, Sarasota and – most importantly – Pinellas County.

The ‘DC outsider’ is up against Sydney Gruters and Eddie Speir in the Republican primary.

The former Sarasota city commissioner and mayor is one of five Democrats running in the August primary.

In Mitch Maley’s satirical whodunit, the lines between Mullet County and Manatee County blur.

He can drive it on Florida roads, but the heavy machine gun is not operable.