Project for Public Spaces (PPS) - Placemaking for Communities - Top 12 Public Squares in the U.S. and Canada

With the natural beauty and location we have Sarasota so should be on this list.

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Urban Real Estate & Condominiums

Blog about condos...

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Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Munich, Murnau, Milano, Venice, Swiss Towns - Alps Europe

more cities to visit

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Barcelona Field Studies Centre: Geography, Biology and Ecology Field Study Courses in Spain

Looks like a good program

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World's twelve best cities for manufacturing

Add this to our list of cities to visit

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JS Online: World-class cities rely on entrepreneurs

Very interesting.  I wonder how international Sarasota is.  I would guess much more than we would think.

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Moved to New Home

Please visit my new blog at http://www.moraca.org I think it's pretty good...

view my photo albums

Save the Tree Family

Save our Sarasota presents street theatre. I think this is an effective photo.

Not to be totally outdone I posted pictures of Disney on moraca.org my new blog.

Arlington Park Real Estate Prices !!

Can it be true my neighborhood has a home for sale listed at $600,000!! It is a nice looking place on S Shade Ave that sits on a half acre lot but...

that is a lot of money.

Hudson Bayou and open government

Today's Sarasota Herald Tribune has two good city articles about the lift station on Pomelo Ave - earlier this week we learned that - in addition to the 570,000 gallon leak last month -- there was a previous huge leak of 500,000 gallons that "nobody" knew about.

Now the neighbors say the lift station is illegally located -- and
after looking for a few weeks the city has not been able to find any
proof of its right to have placed a lift station that pumps 2,000,000
gallons of sewage a day in a park.

Because of the "coverup" the City Commission was forced into ordering an outside investigation. Tom Lyons calls it fairly when he says that the City Manager should have been more out front with the public.

Bottom line staff knew about the previous leak and should have been much faster to get the news out. When government makes a mistake the only thing to do is announce it to the public. Trying to coverup smells like a 570,000 gallon sewage leak.

No matter what it costs (I am sure it is expensive) I think the lift station will have to be moved.

Say "NO" To Hate

I attended a meeting of the Sarasota Coalition Against Hate that has pulled together since the news of the neo-Nazi working in a local child care center.

It is very sad that something like that has to go on in Sarasota. The meeting was the the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation. What does it say that they have a full time guard in their parking lot.

One of the groups first projects will be to place a full page ad in the Sarasota Herald Tribune to call for awareness of hatred and bigotry issues.

For more information or to help sponsor this please contact Edda Post at 365-4955.

Save Our Sarasota

It is good to seeanother urban issues Sarasota Blog. We will all see what happens to downtown SRQ in the next few months as several big projects get completed. You can view some of my pictures of downtown at moraca.org

Even LA has a money losing Convention Center

Seems even LA has a money losing Convention Center according to the Planning Report - the Insider's Guide to Managed Growth ...

"Beginning in 2000, business for the Los Angeles Convention Center has suffered as competitors opened the doors to new and newly renovated convention centers and related hotels. Now, as a deal with the City of Los Angeles is crafted for a new 1200-room convention center hotel, the LA Convention Center is poised to enter a new era. TPR is pleased to present this interview with Michael Collins, executive director of LA Inc., the Los Angeles Convention Center and Visitors Bureau, in which he discusses the the potential of the new hotel and the potential for the return of a professional football team to L.A."

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No Clear Winner in City Commission Election

Well the best (in the voters eyes) 3 get a chance in the run-off. The 2 with the highest number of votes on April 12th will win. Good Luck.

The last 3 standing in the Sarasota City Commission race are:

Richard Martin

Lou Ann Palmer

Ken Shelin

* that is alphabetic order by last names...

There was no winner with a majority (with only 5,717 voters a voting) of the whopping 18.4% voter turn-out.

Moving to ... moraca.org someday soon..