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Welcome to The Argus Foundation weekly government report! Find out what is going on in local government for the week of March 23, 2020 in Sarasota County. Covering the Sarasota County School Board, the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board, the Sarasota City...
We are now getting a reminder about why business is so important to our lives here. COVID-19 is causing businesses to be completely shut down, and therefore, residents are losing their jobs. We are watching small businesses owners stop paying themselves and trying to...
But on a more local note, writing this column gives an opportunity to dedicate the rest of my comments to an individual who recently passed; someone who had a profound and positive effect on our community, including the airport. Kerry Kirschner, previously executive...
Among the issues Stossel discussed was the $15 minimum wage, a proposed state constitutional amendment that will be on the Florida ballot this fall as Amendment Two. The Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association opposes the ballot question.
What has been discovered in areas around the country where this has passed is that those businesses that have not closed have altered their business model to eliminate positions. Teens and retirees aren’t getting hired, hours and benefits are being cut for regular...
Sarasota on March 4 lost one of its strongest leaders, most fervent advocates and one its true champions: Former Mayor and City Commissioner Kerry Kirschner. I would like to share a few words about this man, whose impact on the community was truly profound.
And yet people often did listen to Kirschner, and it’s impossible to enumerate the ways in which life around here is better because of his soft-spoken forcefulness. The former city commissioner and longtime director of The Argus Foundation, who died on Wednesday, was...
