Takeaways from Tallahassee — The Sarasota model

“Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival” is the subtitle for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bestselling book and, arguably, nowhere is that blueprint coming into sharper relief than in Sarasota County.

The county’s school Superintendent who resisted DeSantis’ decree against student mask mandates made a hasty exit upon the election of a new School Board late last year.

Three “health freedom” candidates in November won seats on the board of the county’s public hospital, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, with campaigns that questioned the hospital’s mainstream approach to COVID-19 vaccines and treatment. That election has transformed sleepy proceedings into well-attended raucous affairs.

But even those dramatic

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