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Guest Commentary: Climate, wetlands, and the right to clean and healthy waters

I live on Southwest 1st Court in Cape Coral, in a house built in 1967. Back then, few people worried or even knew about climate change. Those days are gone. Hurricane Ian, supercharged by global warming, inflicted $120,000 of damage upon my house, mostly by storm surge, and my home and flood ...

Guest Commentary | Why everyone should be Mad About Hunger

UPDATE: Community Cooperative’s 18th Annual Becoming Cosmopolitan: ‘Mad About Hunger’ event has been rescheduled and will be held Thursday, Nov. 7 Original post: Did you know that in the United States, one in eight households—and one in six households with children—are struggling ...

Vote Sheridan Chester

To the editor: Vote for Sheridan Chester for Lee County School Board District 7 at large. Sheridan’s top priorities include: Realistic living wage for our teachers, hire and retain qualified, dedicated educators for our students, maintain a safe environment for our students and teachers and ...

America is near the breaking point

To the editor: As we reviewed the Democratic party, we learn that Democrats too often focus on special-interest groups rather than America. For example, the effort to pay student loans by Joe Biden had nothing to do with the success of America and clearly appears to be an effort to use ...

No joy in Harris’ target issue

To the editor: Why is abortion the main issue Kamala Harris speaks about? Abortion is death.You cannot have joy with death. She never mentions birth control or adoption, only death. Early pregnancy tests boast how early you will know if you are pregnant — why not have FREE pregnancy tests ...

Time for a leader to bring us together

To the editor: As an Italian American I was horrified by the recent lies being spewed about many of my friends in the Haitian community. It was not so long ago that we Italian Americans were the subject of the same treatment. I used to work for a Republican who left the party as it changed. ...

When you vote, remember Jan. 6, 2021

To the editor: Jan. 6, 2021 was the closest day in my 68 years that our nation came under a direct and violent attack from within our political systems. Joe Biden clearly received the most electoral votes in the 2020 election, and after 60 courts across the nation rejected the losing ...

Running on hope

To the editor: I would like to respond to a letter titled “Vote for Hope” in last week’s column. The writer wrote in great detail the attributes that she feels our current vice-president possesses, and why she should be our next President. In the interest of space, I will only comment ...

Vote NO on Amendment 1

To the editor: When everything is political, a society is in heaps of trouble. Just ask the Romans! Our Founders were careful to keep some of our foundational institutions nonpartisan: public health, the judiciary, public education and the military, to name some of the most important. What ...