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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...

The longtime Sarasota resident worked in consumer products and pharmaceuticals before leading the Argus Foundation. Kerry Kirschner, the former Sarasota city commissioner and head of the nonprofit Argus Foundation, died Wednesday, just a few months after being...

The truth is the Commission does not need a taxing district to make funding decisions about mental health. On their own, they can dedicate a portion of the millage to mental health. On their own, they can increase the millage, and on their own they can create a...

Frazer, who has a Ph.D. in biological sciences, primarily has been tasked with addressing water quality issues, which he described during a speech to The Argus Foundation Tuesday as “probably the most pressing problem in our state.”