Love live music? Get ready to get your fill — the Island Hopper Songwriter Fest is back. The 10-day music festival now in its 12th year will feature more than 80 performances at a multitude of venues across four communities — and most of those shows are free. Kicking off Sept. 18-20 on ...
Lee County has touched off a whirlwind of protest with residents and virtually every environmental group in the county protesting proposed changes to the Lee Plan they say will eliminate every individual community plan throughout unincorporated Lee County. The changes address both the Lee ...
Florida Amendment 3 - Save Our Homes From Excessive Property Taxes This amendment benefits Florida taxpayers by: Exempting homestead properties from taxation. Exempts the first $250,000 of a homestead’s value from taxation for all levies other than school district levies and requires, ...
In newsroom jargon, we call stories that repeat annually “evergreens.” Some are welcome. Who doesn’t await rainy season? Others, not so much. “Kitten season” is among the latter. Yes, we have among us those who unabashedly call ourselves “pet parents” and the “kitten ...
Appropriately coinciding with the official start of hurricane season Gov. Ron DeSantis has called for a special legislative session to push his “Save Our Homes” plan to slash property taxes. “Today in Tampa, I outlined the Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Taxes plan that will ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation this week that his office says strengthens protections against two things — any implementation of religious laws and terrorism, foreign or home-grown. “To uphold the rule of law, our state must operate under one legal system, the Constitution must ...
