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May 06, 2026

Trains, Planes and Boats Are Reshaping Treasure Coast Life — With Real Costs

Brightline, Witham Field, and the St. Lucie River waterway all promise opportunity, but residents deserve honest debate about who bears the burden

Opinion | TC Sentinel Editorial Board The Treasure Coast has always been a place you can reach by water, and increasingly by rail and air. That is, on its face, a good thing. Connectivity drives comm...

May 14, 2026

High School Sports Pressure Is Real — Here's What the Treasure Coast Owes Its Student-Athletes

A national conversation about the commercialization of prep sports should prompt our three counties to ask hard questions about what we demand from teenagers in the name of Friday night glory

# Opinion | TC Sentinel Editorial Board The pressure cooker that Florida prep athletics has become is not an abstraction in Martin, St. Lucie, and Indian River counties. It is the 16-year-old quarter...

May 14, 2026

Brightline Hype on the Treasure Coast Deserves Hard Questions, Not Just Applause

Before Florida celebrates high-speed rail as a cure-all, Treasure Coast residents should ask who pays, who benefits, and who gets left behind

# Opinion | TC Sentinel Editorial Board The press releases write themselves. A gleaming train slicing through Florida at 125 miles per hour, whisking commuters from Miami to Orlando, reducing highway...

May 18, 2026

Stuart Is Watching a Transit Opportunity Pull Out of the Station

While other Florida cities move to connect Breeze commuter rail and Brightline, Martin County's seat sits on the sidelines — and residents deserve to know why

Opinion | TC Sentinel Editorial Board Somewhere in Florida, a city is figuring out how to stitch together two rail systems — Brightline's intercity express and Brightline's proposed Breeze commuter s...

May 19, 2026

Florida Poll Showing Democratic Surge Deserves a Hard Second Look

A new statewide survey has Treasure Coast-area political watchers buzzing — but its methodology raises serious questions about what those numbers actually mean

Opinion | TC Sentinel Editorial Board Every election cycle, a poll lands in Florida political inboxes and sets off a chain reaction — headlines, donor calls, candidate panic. A new statewide survey c...

May 22, 2026

Brightline's Shaky Finances Should Alarm Every Treasure Coast Commuter

The private rail company's mounting debt and uncertain revenue are not a distant Wall Street problem — they are our problem

Opinion | TC Sentinel Editorial Board Stuart sits roughly midway between Miami and Orlando on Brightline's corridor. That geography once felt like a promise. For years, Treasure Coast residents have...