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Manatee County Commission Chair George Kruse called it “a vision for the future.” The county held a special work session Feb.

Officials launched an investigation Friday morning after officers helping prepare for the Bradenton Area River Regatta found a dead manatee washed ashore.

Manatee County is hardly the leading edge of liberalism. Yet it says something about Florida’s tortured approach to growth when the county commission there — all seven Republicans — discusses ways to ...