TRYON: Manatee advisers' hits and misses

In the spirit of baseball season: A report and recommendations delivered to the Manatee County Commission by the Urban Land Institute contained hits and misses. … Here are, in my view, some of the hits: … The advisers on the panel recognized both the value of — and the disconnect among — the airport, the University of South Florida Sarasota/Manatee, New College of Florida and the Ringling Museum of Art, which is operated by Florida State University. (New College and the museum are in Sarasota but near the county line.) I’ve sat in more than a few meetings over the years on the topic of how the colleges might bind together to connect their properties and activities. Yet there has been little progress. The folks at those institutions are busy, so what will it take to get something going?