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Editorial | It’s your money

Cape Coral residents who want to see where the city of Cape Coral plans to spend their money will have a good opportunity to do that. The city has scheduled a “Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Town Hall” for Thursday, July 23, in the Council Chambers at City Hall. “The Town Hall will offer ...

Editorial | America 250

... “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a ...

Help keep shelter numbers down

In newsroom jargon, we call stories that repeat annually “evergreens.” Some are welcome. Who doesn’t await rainy season? Others, not so much. “Kitten season” is among the latter. Yes, we have among us those who unabashedly call ourselves “pet parents” and the “kitten ...

Editorial | All politics are local

While we all — Republicans, Democrats, third party and those who claim no party alike — are watching the midterms, it is the local elections that matter most on many of the daily details of our everyday lives. From zoning and land use issues and what might be coming on that big vacant ...

United Way has a question for Southwest Floridians: Will you become One in a Million? Our local agency, representing Lee, Hendry and Glades Counties, set a goal of raising $11.5 million, money it will use to help support more than 260 programs by assisting 92 partner agencies. The annual ...

It took an Americans With Disabilities Act request for accommodation but Cape Coral City Council has moved its time for public comment back to the beginning of its meetings. A Cape resident, who is a fully-disabled 81-year-old Vietnam veteran who recently lost his support dog, told the city ...