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Editorial | And so it begins

The city of Cape Coral cracked open the door to its budget process last week with a two-day workshop held in Council Chambers. Cape Coral City Council heard presentations from city staff last Thursday and Friday on a variety of topics ranging from an overview of forecasted adjustments likely ...

Editorial | We cannot look away

Just 17 days after a 37-year-old mom was shot to death in an encounter with federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis, a registered nurse who treated veterans in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System met a similar fate. Renee Good was shot three times by a U.S. ...

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 been hammered by one of the three strains against which this year’s shot is intended to protect. We’re at the height of the flu season with the Center for Disease ...

Editorial | Oh, when will they ever learn

For those of us old enough to remember the ‘60s, the times they aren’t a-changin.’ The current administration’s decision to wage a boots-on-the-ground “police action” is not the first time an administration, citing preservation and protection of country ideals, has been willing to ...

What better way to kick off the new year than with a Cape Coral tradition — or two or three? The Rotary Club of Cape Coral will again jumpstart the Cape’s annual major events schedule with its popular Cape Coral Art Festival set for this weekend along Cape Coral Parkway. One of the ...

As the calendar flips to 2026, we’re going to open the new year with a recommendation we first pushed a decade ago. Back in 2016, with numerous projects pending in our city, we urged the then-sitting Cape Coral City Council to foster transparency throughout the concept-to-construction ...