Latest columns from Laura Sperling

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  Helping hands for a neighbor

• Low-tech answer: recycling bins
• Aiming for marital apartheid
• A freedom fraught with risk
• The DUI teen who killed my dad

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• A dream home deferred again 8/22/2008
  
• Recharting government's course 8/15/2008
  
• A year in the life of Wylie 8/8/2008
  
• Panhandlers prick our doubts 7/18/2008
  
• One parking standard for all? 7/11/2008
  
• Faith in America's track record 7/4/2008
  
• A suitcase full of thoughts 6/27/2008
  
• Lovely, but lethal to the unwary 6/6/2008
  
• Those seconds of uncertainty 5/30/2008
  
• 'Trashy couple' are trendsetters 5/23/2008
  
• A turning point at Janie Poe 5/9/2008
  
• Why no empathy for the poor? 5/2/2008
  
• Don't get fooled by faux green 4/25/2008
  
• Losing more than we've gained 4/18/2008
  
• Neutralizing long-acting poison 4/11/2008
  
• 'Keepers' for Sarasota's future 3/28/2008
  
• Threat to impound may suffice 3/21/2008
  
• Sex education played out on TV 3/14/2008
  
• Digital dawn isn't greeted by all 3/7/2008
  
• All the news that's fit to post 2/29/2008
  
• Growth is a traffic diet buster 2/22/2008
  
• A four-time bruiser moves in 2/15/2008
  
• Anti-crime program needs help 2/8/2008
  
• A durable vision for Sarasota 2/1/2008
  
• Tax-cut fever shrinks our vision 1/18/2008