Jeff Lytle

Just in time for what would have been his 50th birthday this Wednesday, Collier County government has erected a nice little monument and planted some flowers for Stephen Duzick.

Read the Daily News closely.

It is time to look ahead.

I have been on some islands these past few weeks.

The supermarket customer asks the checkout clerk, a real expert on the local economy, whether the snowbirds are coming back.

Good news.

I am from the Northeast.

This is a column that could write itself.

A forum Tuesday, "How We Elect County Commissioners," will explore alternatives to the current district-based Collier County commission election system.

Time flies when you're trying hard.

Frank Schwerin was going out on a limb. He knew it was “politically incorrect” for him, as the chairman of Collier County Republicans, to publicly call for surging presidential candidate Herman Cain to release his medical records from a 2006 ...

For years, Collier County’s efforts for economic growth and diversification have leaned on the active and retired captains of industry who already live here. The school of thought is that these men and women can move their work here or ...

I was working hard on connecting the dots that I knew were there to turn a string of interesting items into a column.

When the issue was how to truly uplift the lives of migrant laborers — via literacy education or more money for piecework — the answer was simple, at least to me.

There is an unusual amount of jockeying for political positions, as candidates seek to catch the wave of public interest in elections a year off.