Throughout our history, Floridians have reveled in our state’s natural resources.
Sometimes you don’t realize the impact a business has on the area until the business suddenly closes.
Charlotte County residents will be asked to approve the extension of the 1% Local Option Sales Tax in November. The tax was first approved in …
As Punta Gorda City Manager Howard Kunik prepares for his well-deserved retirement, we celebrate his years of excellent leadership.
Although Charlotte County government will begin its 2020/21 Fiscal Year Oct. 1, we are already starting to work on next year’s budget. For loc…
It has been a wonderful 15 ½ years as your city manager and, as such, I would like to take this time to offer some final thoughts.
Through PACE – a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly – Hope Healthcare provides our community’s seniors with the coordinated and com…
This year, our county faced an enormous public health crisis. Throughout this emergency, water and wastewater systems kept flowing in homes, h…
Last Tuesday, the Charlotte County Commission held its first budget hearing. The final budget hearing is set for 5:01 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22.
The new Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant has been providing Punta Gorda water utility customers with blended water from Shell Creek for approximatel…
The very subjects we read in the national headlines about events happening far away can sometimes happen right here.
The coronavirus crisis has not altered Floridians’ belief in climate change, according to the third Florida Climate Resilience Survey by the F…
Many Americans have nothing to celebrate this Labor Day. They are the hourly, low-wage workers that make up almost 50% of the American workfor…
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As a long-time member of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), I feel compelled to reiterate the ideals set forth in ou…
I am aghast. How aghast? Well, I don’t know if I have ever used the word “aghast” in a sentence before.
As the president of the Florida School Boards Association, it is my job and the job of all school board members across the state to help infor…
September will be a busy month for Charlotte County. County Commission meetings resume at 9 a.m. Tuesday after the August break.
For months now, your local health department and school district administration have been discussing and planning for the reopening of schools…
Sarasota County schools welcomed back students despite the lack of needed support from the state or federal governments. We were ordered to op…
As I reflect on my time leading the city of Punta Gorda I am thankful that so much was able to be accomplished. Many, if not all, of the succe…
Do you know how people say they laughed out loud? But you wonder if they really did?
It’s rare to hear the term “climate emergency” in media and political discourse in the United States, even though that is the term thousands o…
We should stop teaching history in our schools. The way history is now being taught leads to a racist society, perpetuates white privilege and…
Slavery. Segregation. Racial discrimination. Should we teach our students about these terrible things? If so, what should we say?
If you watched last week’s virtual Democratic convention, you heard about an America with which you might not be familiar. Speaker after speak…
Ten years ago, President Barack Obama showed up in Pensacola to walk the beaches, address a crowd at the Naval Air Station, and thank military…
The Punta Gorda City Council made some difficult decisions at the Aug. 19 meeting.
