To the editor: Councilmember Dan Sheppard’s comments about city volunteer committees and boards being a waste of city time and resources shows a total lack of respect for citizen input. Mr. Sheppard believes that the eight elected officials should receive all city management input versus the ...

The prevalence of stroke occurrence in the United States continues to raise concerns. In addition, ignoring stroke signs and symptoms is an area of growing concern. According to a scientific statement released earlier this year by the American Stroke Association/American Heart Association ...

Mr. Feichthaler, Several years ago, a friend of mine and I purchased a property, where we held title as Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship. She paid in 20%, and I paid the rest. I have lived in the property since then, and paid all of the bills. The property has since increased in ...

Last week we discussed how our real estate market reached its new equilibrium in April of this year based on the number of closed sales and the increase in the number of active listings in our single-family home market over the past year. As we pointed out, the beginning and end of the recent ...

Mulch, that bottom layer of your garden. Humble, unassuming. Yet it can do so much for your landscape. Visually, it adds a dark edge between the green grass and the plant bed, making a nice outline to your landscape. More importantly for me, if you keep it at least 2 inches thick, it limits ...

If there is one thing students of all ages look forward to, it’s summer. Teachers, too, we suspect, though educators do see a down side — and it’s a steep one. Call it summer slide, call it learning loss, call it what you will, students lose an estimated 2 to 2-1/2 months of learning ...

As the 2022-2023 school year in Lee County comes to an end, great things have been accomplished by our newest kindergarten students to our graduating seniors. When COVID hit in 2020-2021 and then returned in 2021-2022, everyone rallied together to ensure that we addressed the educational needs ...

To the editor: It must be hard for an undocumented child to keep up with school work and learn to write in a foreign language after having worked 8 hours the night before cleaning up blood in a slaughterhouse. Unaccompanied children are at risk. Roughly half our “asylum”-claiming ...

To the editor: The national debt increased by almost $8 trillion under Trump and the Republican Congress. Now the Republicans threaten to default on our country’s obligations that they incurred. Please — explain to me, again, how anyone can believe that the Republicans are the party of ...

To the editor: Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister of Israel, and Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, are two of the most polarizing figures in contemporary politics. Both have been accused of being dangerous to democracy. In this essay, we will examine some of ...