by saragoldstein554967995 | Jun 26, 2017 | News
Things do not change unless we act. In the last year, the City of Fort Myers has been wracked with scandal after scandal. First was the Freeh report, which detailed years of mismanagement and corruption in the FMPD. We can hope that Chief Diggs, hired in...
by saragoldstein554967995 | Jun 11, 2017 | News
National politics are important but local city, county and state elected officials create laws, policies and budgets that directly affect our day-to-day live. Too many times these officials are elected to office with minimum voter involvement. Meaningful change,...
by saragoldstein554967995 | Jun 10, 2017 | News
The 2017 Florida legislative session has ended without any new anti-choice legislation being passed to restrict Florida women’s reproductive freedom, for the first time in eight legislative sessions. The reproductive rights restrictions considered this session...
by saragoldstein554967995 | Jun 10, 2017 | News
One of the environmental battles now occurring in Lee County is in Cape Coral over the designation of the old golf course on Palm Tree Blvd. The course was closed in 2006 and left to nature’s care and is now overgrown with grass and weeds and critters. The...
by saragoldstein554967995 | Jun 10, 2017 | News
With elections coming up for Fort Myers’ Mayor, Randy Henderson, and City Council Members of Wards 1, 3, 5, questions remain regarding their effectiveness with the Fort Myers Police Department (FMPD). Stemming from a unanimous vote in September 2015, a Mayoral...
by saragoldstein554967995 | Jun 10, 2017 | News
After 20 years of delays, legislative bickering and opposition by the agricultural industry, Governor Rick Scott signed a bold piece of legislation, SB10, meant to help restore the Everglades and stop polluted water in Lake Okeechobee from pouring into the...
