Archive for 2009

By I.M. STACKEL, the Naples Daily News

NAPLES - Naples’ downtown post office is no longer an endangered species.

U.S. Congressman Connie Mack announced Monday afternoon that the downtown Naples Post Office, at 860 Sixth Ave. S., was removed from the U.S. Post Office’s list of potential closures.

Mack praised a strong Naples lobby for saving the office [...]

By MCKENZIE CASSIDY, the Cape Coral Daily Breeze

Only four months after the Department of Veterans Affairs opened bids on a new clinic in Cape Coral, the $53.1 million construction project was awarded to Kraft Construction Company Inc. from Naples.

The 224,000-square-foot clinic will be constructed on a 30-acre parcel of land on the northwest corner of [...]

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez — together with the likes of Cuba’s Castro brothers, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega — is spewing a populist, leftist, and strongly anti-American brand of politics that is spreading throughout Latin America. There, a rebellion against Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution is gathering that the Obama administration seems eager to quell.

One [...]

WASHINGTON - Congressman Connie Mack (FL-14) issued the following statement this morning after Republican candidates in Virginia and New Jersey swept their respective races.

Mack said:

“Last night, we saw voters take a clear stand against the Obama Administration’s failed policies of bigger government, higher taxes, and greater spending. In just nine months, the American people are [...]

BY DON MANLEY

The Fort Myers News-Press

The health care reforms proposed by Democrats in Congress all have one thing in common - the federal government would have the power to dictate citizens’ health care options.

So said U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, during his appearance at a breakfast meeting Monday for the Chamber of Southwest Florida. [...]