Archive for February, 2008

Jessica Cosden Montrose

Naples Daily News

February 20, 2008 - BONITA SPRINGS - Southwest Florida healthcare professionals have a lot to say. So much, in fact, that a roundtable discussion with Congressman Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, continued 40 minutes past its scheduled end on Tuesday. The group met at the historic Liles Hotel in Bonita Springs.

“The [...]

Elysa Batista

Naples Daily News

February 20, 2008 - MIAMI - It’s not the long-awaited news that many Cuban-Americans have wanted to hear for nearly 50 years.

But Tuesday’s announcement that Fidel Castro had resigned as president of Cuba left many in Miami’s Cuban community hoping that was a sign of coming change to the island nation.

“I [...]

Charlie Whitehead

Naples Daily News

February 12, 2008 - FORT MYERS - Rep. Connie Mack told Lee County commissioners Monday he’s still dead-set against tolling Interstate 75.

Mack said that tolling seems like the easy out, but it’s a tax that motorists pay, and will pay forever.

“Tolls never go away,” Mack said in a meeting with commissioners. [...]

Naples Daily News

February 4, 2008 - One of Southwest Florida’s most important and busiest inlets, Gordon Pass, between Naples and Keewaydin Island, is in line for maintenance dredging for the first time since 2002.

It would keep the channel deep enough for safe boating, about 12 feet, and help the natural flushing action between bay [...]