Watching the Sarasota County Commission discuss allocations of tourist tax dollars for the county’s vibrant arts and culture organizations left me with a lot of questions. While approving $2.1 million to 35 arts groups, commissioners rejected funding for three popular programs – Embracing Our Differences, the Chalk Festival and WSLR/Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center.
Months after he covered the costs for Sarasota County’s 211 helpline service that county commissioners rejected, attorney and developer Hugh Culverhouse Jr. is stepping up to do the same for the popular Embracing Our Differences exhibition. He called the commissioners’ recent decision not to rejecting a grant to the organization “illogical.” Culverhouse and his wife,
If we ask cosmologists what was present before the Big Bang or what’s inside a black hole, they’re likely to give us a very complicated answer that could be summarized with, “We don’t know. That’s beyond today’s physics.” Then their eyes roll upwards as they ponder answers to the universe’s most daunting questions. It’s kind
Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst’s office will no longer increase a homesteaded property’s taxable value for routinely replacing a roof after two homeowners successfully challenged the practice. Despite the homeowners’ successful challenge to the property appraiser’s interpretation, homeowners who have seen their property values raised over the past decade-plus for new roofs can’t expect