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May 13th, 2009 by Cooper Levey-Baker in Editor's Desk, News, Politics, Sarasota-Manatee
— It’s official. Rep. Vern Buchanan is staying put. (Don’t you love how the decision is portrayed as a principled stand, instead of political expediency? ”It feels like the right thing, for the district and for me,” Buchanan told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. If so, why’d he have to wait for Crist to announce his plans first?)
— Sarasota has more than 1 million square feet of vacant commercial property. In. Credible.
— “The Downtown Sarasota Merchants Association and the Downtown Partnership are in the final stages of merger talks to once again work under the combined name, the Downtown Association.” Really, the “Downtown Association”? Couldn’t they have come up with a more distinctive name? I vote for the Globo-Downtown Alliance.
— Wild Thing aka Chrissie Siggelakis aka Christina Cummings aka Christ Hartburg cries watching Miss California’s press conference: “God bless her, she is a special person.”





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