At a Tuesday evening meeting at the Frances T. Bourne Jacaranda Library in Venice the two meeting rooms are packed. There is hardly a space in the parking lot. The first room is filled with people c…
This week, two bits of news bear mention and comment.
The first is that in Lee County, the apartment vacancy rate has spiked to 20.3 percent, with the highest rental vacancy rate for any major me…
Tuesday, the Charlotte County Commission approved, by a 3-2 vote, a plan to turn a former citrus grove into a yard waste disposal site and “nature preserve” as the centerpiece of a large housing dev…
This Thursday morning, just before deadline, the sky had almost no clouds. The air was a series of off colors, a sort of light amber near where the sun was rising, and a bluish gray tint everywhere…
One of the most important tasks of local media is the coverage of meetings. As the number of newspapers has decreased nationwide, and other media outlets disappear, meeting coverage has also diminis…
The phrase “you can just do things” has been hanging out on the internet in recent years.
The phrase may have many origins. In the movie “The Dark Knight,” the Joker compared himself to a dog ch…
It was last Sunday night, on a Breeze Airways Airbus rollicking above thunderstorms up and down the East Coast, somewhere just past Ocala, that one could see the future of America on the eve of her…
It is now less than two weeks until the nation’s 250th anniversary. Those of us who lived through 1976, and who are approaching this event, cannot help but think wistfully about how important the Bi…
The founding fathers of America are frequently counted merely as the privileged and the victors. In the common (mis)understanding of American history, they were simply the nation’s wealthiest elite…
Who could be lucky enough to have caught the last few moments of The Belmont Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday? No, it was not in Saratoga, New York, where the Belmont was held this year for the last t…
