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With tensions brewing for weeks, several commissioners on Tuesday offered a rare rebuke of the Florida Department of Health

Sarasota County to resurrect mental health funding talks Special taxing district idea, shelved in April, may be back on table SARASOTA COUNTY – Sarasota County commissioners may be taking a bold step in 2021 to address disparities in local mental health funding, potentially resurrecting the idea of a public referendum that could create a mental health taxing district to fund treatment. The proposed district, if approved by commissioners and subsequently passed by voters, would be used to levy taxes to provide funding for mental health services. While pro-business groups have opposed the ide...

SARAOTA- Sarasota County Commissioners blame to State-run county health department for flaws in the vaccine registration system. Don’t expect a public vaccine event in Sarasota County this week,

NORTH PORT – Three candidates, including one familiar face from the November 2020 race for Sarasota County Commission, have filed for the March 9 special election to fill the currently vacant North Port City Commission District 1 seat. Two political newcomers, Joseph Garren and Walt Grzenikowski, will be on the ballot along with Alice White, who ran unsuccessfully against Ron Cutsinger for the District 5 seat on the Sarasota County Commission. A change in the North Port city charter means that the top finisher in the three-way race will claim the seat outright, regardless of the number of...

SARASOTA COUNTY – Since voters overwhelmingly supported a 2018 effort to secure $65 million in funding to extend the Legacy Trail – which runs 12.5 miles south from Culverhouse Nature Park to Center Road in Venice – some south Sarasota County residents felt they were being left behind.  Residents of North Port watched as elected officials fast-tracked the construction of the northern extension. They watched a groundbreaking ceremony for those segments over the summer. They wondered if they would also get a paved trail.  The fear became so pronounced that it was a brief focal point d...