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Editorial | Flu shots make sense

Didn’t get a flu shot? You probably still want to get one — unless you’re among the thousands who have already have been hammered by one of the three strains against which this year’s shot is intended to protect. The height of the flu season rolled in early this year with Lee Health ...

Editorial | Testament to bravery

Jan. 6, 2021: ... “Valor is defined as showing great courage in the face of danger, and there has been no better illustration of this than what the world witnessed from our law enforcement members that day. A mob of thousands launched a violent assault on the United States Capitol in an ...

Editorial | Back to the future

We don’t have a flux capacitor, heck, we’ve never even seen a DeLorean, but we do have the gigawatts to know that the past always looks better in the rearview mirror. For some, anyway. For the women of recent generations past, the struggle to get into med school, or law school, or simply ...

A handful of residents of Entrada, a community off the Del Prado extension in the north Cape, turned out Wednesday to ask the Cape Coral City Council to reconsider plans to build 40-foot water towers and other utility infrastructure in the preserve behind their homes. They said they were ...

Help make it a happy new year

Among the many hopes — and promises — for 2025 is a better tomorrow. The big things. Shelter. Food on the table. Services, programs, medical care for those who need them. The little things that we would not call luxuries: Low-cost/no cost places to go. Support for the arts, for the ...

Editorial | 2025 on the horizon

If ever a calendar page-turner marked a potential for change, it’s the upcoming flip to 2025. Voters casting ballots from the top of the ticket down to the most local level of governance here in Cape Coral opted for some new, albeit familiar faces, for the path ahead. Here in the Cape, ...