Cape Coral residents will see five of our neighbors sworn in to serve on the city’s elected board on Nov. 20. Three are political newcomers and two are familiar faces though neither of the latter two was an incumbent. Laurie Lehmann, Derrick Donnell, Jennifer Nelson, Joseph Kilraine and ...
It looks like we don’t have to urge Lee Countians to cast a ballot this election cycle — voters are doing so in droves and that is a good thing. The ballot headliner and greatest draw, of course, is the presidential race offering the Republican ticket of Donald J. Trump and JD Vance, and ...
In terms of the Nov. 5 General Election ballot, the Florida State Legislature has been busy. Four of the six constitutional amendments to be decided by voters were placed there by those we send to Tallahassee. Their ballot initiatives represent a diverse range of proposed changes to our ...
Cape Coral City Council approved a pair of ordinances this week to address what officials have deemed to be a proliferation of two specific businesses — car washes and self-storage facilities. The city has “too many” and new construction is eating up limited commercial land inventory — ...
Hurricane Milton may not have been as bad as feared, but the storm, hard on the heels of Helene, while our communities continue to recover from Ian, was bad enough. Making landfall at Siesta Key in Sarasota County as a Category 3 hurricane, Milton brought record-breaking rain — what ...
Bad memories of the past marked the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Ian here in Southwest Florida. Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Captiva, Pine Island and Matlacha all saw inundating storm surge again with Fort Myers and the Cape seeing flooding as well as Hurricane Helene raced off Florida’s ...
