Podcast

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.

Sarasota joins at least 15 Florida counties pursuing moratoriums.

Rural residents pay ‘impervious surface’ fees, even though little or no rainwater ends up in the county system.

An education advocate explains the district’s strategy and its struggles.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Sarasota County Commission will discuss constitutional officer budgets, arts grants, budgets for Phillippi Creek and Hudson Bayou dredging, and funding for Sheriff’s Office headquarter expansion and for a site of the Clerks Records Office.