Editorials

A look at the good, the bad and the questionable

President Barack Obama's military advisers plan on the U.S. and its NATO allies ending combat operations in Afghanistan perhaps as soon as mid-2013, a year and a half early.

Familiar themes are in the headlines from the legislative session in Tallahassee.

"Experts say US ill prepared for oil spill off Cuba."

When the Collier County Property Appraiser's Office moved to its current headquarters off Radio Road in 2009, some heavy lifting was required.

The always informative and helpful column by the staff of the Wildlife Clinic at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida ...

Southwest Florida voters went with what they know — even Mitt Romney, who they backed for the GOP presidential nomination four years ago — but not with their fire districts where tax cap hikes were concerned.

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The Naples Art Association, which runs the von Liebig Art Center in Naples' Cambier Park, is going through its third leadership change in the past decade.

Southwest Florida voters went with what they know -- even Mitt Romney, who they backed for the GOP presidential nomination four years ago -- but not with their fire districts where tax cap hikes were concerned.

What can we learn from this?

We could say that the leaders and patrons of the Naples Winter Wine Festival never cease surprising us.

Today Southwest Florida voters get to have the final say on the Republican presidential primary, non-partisan municipal elections in Collier and Lee counties, and tax-cap hike referendums in three independent Collier fire districts.

Collier County commissioners almost made the right decision.

On this verge of Florida's Republican presidential primary climaxing on Tuesday, we direct voters' attention to local matters on the ballot.