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Time to give up parkway parking lanes

To the editor: A recent proposal to remove the parking lanes on Cape Coral Parkway and use them as a third lane for through traffic is long overdue. On one hand we have a handful of business owners that want to retain their personal parking. On the other hand tens of thousands of commuters ...

Funds for owl habitat is not tax dollars

To the editor: In The Breeze a couple of issues ago someone wrote in that he was protesting the $900,000 to buy burrowing owl lots, insinuating that the city was paying taxes dollars to buy the lots. This is far from the truth. The $900,000 is a tax-fee grant that comes from money that ...

Guest Commentary | Government serves ‘We the People’

Well, it was an interesting February! I’ll start with a reminder that the League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization, focused primarily on voter rights and civic education. In this guest commentary, I’m going to focus squarely on civic education. Our U.S. Constitution created ...