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By Tony D’Souza | Photography by Fred Lopez If you Google “Sarasota concealed carry course,” as I did shortly after the Sandy Hook school shooting, the link that pops up is the website of Sarasota’s Armed Citizens League. Click on it, and immediately you know you’ve landed in the right place: The first image is [...]
Read More >>By Tony D’Souza I first came to Florida the way I imagine many Midwesterners did: as a kid, uncomfortably strapped into the back seat of my parents’ car. We traveled to Longboat Key during the mid-’80s, and I remember those trips as a 10-, 11-, and 12-year-old being filled with mental and physical tests along [...]
Read More >>By Tony D’Souza On a quiet afternoon in June, Peg Nadel, 76, paces the kitchen of her east Sarasota home, suffering through a debt collection call. “My friend,” she sighs into the phone, “my status has been in the trash. I can’t make any monthly payments. I struggle just to live. Hopefully in a month [...]
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