Letters: Stood up for taxpayers
To the Editor:
Having been deeply involved in fighting Charlotte County’s overdevelopment crisis on behalf of neighbors countywide, I can speak from experience: re-elect Commissioners Chris Const…

Empty ‘spaghetti’ apartments and unfinished houses
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…

A dead Charlotte citrus farm, now a dump and mine
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…
Perhaps you can join the Cloud Appreciation Society
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…



