Abortion again on the Manatee County Commission's agenda

Proposed resolution would ban county funding for any group working with Planned Parenthood or other abortion provider. It also would ignore reality.

Hurricane Idalia passed more than 100 miles west of Manatee County, close enough with its surge of seawater to remind us of the risks we face because of climate change and “rapidly intensifying” storms that have become more commonplace in recent years. A county commission grounded in the real world — at least along the eroding shores of the rising Gulf …