Patrick Bidelman News Today

Companies are afraid to insure coastal properties because of all the storms. A special session in May will address rising property insurance rates.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune US democracy birthed in violence The violence that accompanied attacks on federal buildings before the election and the recent assault on the Capitol is deplorable, but is unfortunately also a possible frightful omen of the future. It is easy to ignore history and forget that our present form of government, as well as that of other countries, was birthed in violence. Had the governments at the time of the American and French revolutions prevailed, George Washington would...

Patrick Bidelman walked out of his trailer, as the 80-year-old Nokomis resident does every afternoon at 1:30, and retrieved his mail. Good – the package of vitamin supplements his girlfriend ordered had arrived. There were also a couple of insurance brochures, and a reminder from the Democratic Party to renew his membership. The letter, he figured, was junk. He returned inside, stood by his work bench, and opened it anyway. The first sentence was interesting: “Patrick Bidelman, you are a p...