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Extra Home Season of Sharing Rowing USRowing Youth Nationals Modern Pentathlon HT.com INSANE. INVISIBLE. IN DANGER Pulitzer Winner 2016 - Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Anthony Cormier and Leonora LaPeter of the Tampa Bay Times Florida’s state-funded mental hospitals are supposed to be safe places to care for people who are a danger to themselves or others. But years of neglect and deep budget cuts transformed them into treacherous warehouses where violent patients roam the halls with no supervision and workers are left on their own to oversee dozens of people. Now, no one is safe inside. FLORIDIANS AT RISK Pulitzer Winner 2011 - Paige St. John of Sarasota Herald-Tribune For her examination of weaknesses in the murky property-insurance system vital to Florida homeowners, providing handy data to assess insurer reliability and stirring regulatory action. BIAS ON THE BENCH Florida’s broken sentencing system. Designed for fairness, it fails to account for prejudice. WHAT HAPPENED TO MASON A soldier from Bradenton goes missin. Mason VanKuiken’s story winds through the battlefields of Afghanistan, across the Southwest through Colorado and Texas and ends in a place no one would expect to find the Army private. CAN YOU AFFORD TO LIVE IN PARADISE? Millennials, Gen-Xers and Boomers may have more in common than they realize when it comes to living in Sarasota and Manatee. Reporter Shelby Webb examines how rental rates, availability and the conversation surround housing are shaping the future of Sarasota and Manatee’s young professionals. 2 MILLION KIDS. $24 BILLION BATTLE. How Florida Medicaid pits families, doctors and insurance companies against each other at the expense of children’s health. FLIPPING FRAUD Michael Braga, Chris Davis and Matthew Doig of Sarasota Herald-Tribune For their in-depth reporting and computer analysis that unraveled $10 billion in suspicious Florida real estate transactions, triggering local and state efforts to curb abuses. SCARRED In the last five years, the North Port Police Department’s dogs bit more than 30 people. That’s more than the number of bites recorded by the Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice, Palmetto and Punta Gorda police departments combined. SETTLING FOR SQUALOR Migrant housing conditions are getting worse and there is no one looking out for them. THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: FLORIDA’S ELDER GUARDIANSHIP SYSTEM Florida’s elder guardianship system was set up to protect vulnerable citizens from fraud, abuse or neglect. But critics say the system often ignores individual rights, virtually imprisoning some elders who are not incapacitated. And most guardianship decisions are made in hearings and files closed to the public. TRANSSARASOTA Southwest Florida individuals who want an inclusive world for transgender people believe change is fueled by visibility. ANDRE BRYANT: AN INNOCENT MAN? A man went to jail. A lot of people wondered if the law got it right. It sure doesn’t look like it. MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN FLORIDA The business, culture and politics of Florida’s path toward legalizing medical marijuana. HOME TO HAVANA Carrie Seidman follows two former dancers who defected from Cuba as they return to the land of their birth with their son. NEWTOWN 100 Sarasota’s historically black Newtown neighborhood observes its 100-year anniversary and reflects on a legacy of struggle and triumph. COST OF LIFE Inspired to act by childhood loss, a young reporter became an egg donor. In this way, she helped a couple have a baby. She also learned tough lessons. UNFIT FOR DUTY Read the Herald-Tribune’s special report on Florida’s flawed system for policing the police, which often allows law enforcement officers to remain on the job. FINAL JOURNEY Dorothy Conlon’s journey took 16 days. Chronicling the Sarasota woman’s choice to end her life at age 86 and the impact of that choice on her friends. THE STOLEN ONES Child sex trafficking is an underground economy that thrives here, and everywhere. How can we help those who have been ignored for so long? BREAKING THE BANKS The Herald-Tribune’s award-winning investigative report shows how Florida bankers made risky bets, broke the law, enriched themselves but hurt their own institutions – and got away with it. SELLING HOPE Foreclosure rescue fraud schemes have cost Americans more than $500 million. Florida ranks second in the nation for such fraud, according to government data. FACEING MENTAL ILLNESS Carrie Seidman’s FACEing Mental Illness: The Art of Acceptance is a collaborative art project aimed at reducing discrimination against those with mental health conditions and creating a supportive, inclusive community where mental health is a priority and having a brain disorder carries no shame or stigma. EXPELLED With little state oversight, school districts across Florida have largely been responsible for drafting their own discipline policies. In some places that has led to innovative new ways to correct bad behavior. In other districts, such as Sarasota and Polk counties, the lack of oversight allowed schools to kick students out for weeks, months and even years for misbehavior ranging from disrupting class to setting fires."Business Directory Photo GalleriesCopyright © 2013 · All Rights Reserved · Herald-Tribune Media Group · 1741 Main Street Sarasota , FL...