OUR POSITION: There are plenty of opportunities to get involved saving baby turtles and gain an education on the challenge of survival for end…
OUR POSITION: The next big hurricane will be devastating to Florida’s insurance industry but homeowners may not have to wait until then to pay…
OUR POSITION: We understand Allegiant Travel Company’s dilemma with Sunseeker Resort and Kingsway Country Club and the frustration by neighbors.
OUR POSITION: A study on the financial fallout from a Wellen Park deannexation from North Port suggests the outcome could be detrimental to bo…
OUR POSITION: We agree Gov. Ron DeSantis did not get a fair shake in the recent “60 Minutes” piece on distributing the Covid-19 vaccine.
If you want a job, you have no excuse to be unemployed in Southwest Florida.
Emergency medical care just took an important step forward in Charlotte County.
From the founding of the U.S. Constitution, our forefathers intended that actions taken by the government be made public to the citizenry it s…
OUR POSITION: The potential for an environmental disaster at the Piney Point phosphate mining site should have been addressed long ago.
This time last year, we wrote about how different things were.
OUR POSITION: A leak at an old phosphate plant in Manatee County is further evidence of dangers to our environment from phosphate mining.
OUR POSITION: Lawmakers in Tallahassee still cannot find the resolve to improve Florida’s prisons.
OUR POSITION: The Florida Legislature is all but sure to once again raid the Sadowski Trust Fund to shortchange counties on money that can be …
OUR POSITION: The Florida Legislature is halfway home in its 2021 session and is still fixated on attacking home rule while ignoring problems …
OUR POSITION: A program to restore oyster reefs in and around Charlotte Harbor is a fantastic boost to the health of our water.
OUR POSITION: It’s not time to become careless, but there is reason to be optimistic the COVID-19 pandemic is slowing down.
OUR POSITION: Charlotte County commissioners were wise to postpone a decision about a new contract with a company that places benches, with ad…
OUR POSITION: Good people do good things and events recently in Punta Gorda and Englewood, when people stepped up to make Christmas a little m…
OUR POSITION: A proposal in the Legislature would allow nursing homes to shore up staff shortages with interns in training and that’s not a re…
If you’re not an insider in state politics, you’re probably unaware of bills being pushed in the state Legislature that could really keep you …
OUR POSITION: Raising impact fees is just a common sense approach to pay for growth in North Port and Charlotte County.
OUR POSITION: Gov. Ron DeSantis has a good plan for spending federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan that he has criticized.
OUR POSITION: A movement to recruit younger people to run for Charlotte County offices is a good thing.
OUR POSITION: Charlotte County commissioners are right to question continuation of a decades-long contract to advertise on benches placed thro…
OUR POSITION: Florida is poised to join a majority of states that charge tax for online purchases and it’s well past time to do so.
OUR POSITION: Changes Republicans in the Florida Legislature want to make to voting laws just don’t make sense.
OUR POSITION: The Florida Cabinet corrected a wrong this past week when they revised the state’s policy on restoring ex-felons’ voting rights.
