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The Cape Coral Charter Review Commission has drafted some substantive changes to our city’s bedrock governing document, its charter. The advisory board is near the completion point of its duties to the Cape Coral City Council, which appointed its seven members and two alternates in ...

Editorial | A tax is a tax is a tax

Gov. Ron DeSantis has ramped up his effort to eliminate property taxes in the state of Florida. His reasoning? “Property taxes effectively require homeowners to pay rent to the government,” the governor maintains. Of special concern, he said, is the number of older property owners with ...

The city of Cape Coral has changed how it processes requests for public records related to Cape Coral City Council. Requests for such documents now go through the city attorney’s office. City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn sent an email to staff and members of the elected board in late August, ...

Editorial | How democracy dies

Wednesday was a day of grieving for America and Americans. The political assassination of a renowned conservative activist on a university campus in Utah. Another school shooting, this one in Colorado, which left two teens injured — one critically — and the 16-year-old shooter dead of a ...

Editorial | More than a remembrance

The city of Cape Coral will again hold a 9/11 remembrance on the lawn at City Hall. This year’s ceremony to be held next Thursday beginning at 8:30 a.m. will again focus appropriately on the victims — all those who died in New York at the World Trade Center, in Washington, D.C., at the ...

Revisionist history seems to be a common trait of late so we’ll not overly fault the city for its explanation of its Fire Services Assessment. The tax, excuse us, assessment, indeed was intended to support the operations of the Cape Coral Fire Department as well as the cost of infrastructure ...