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Editorial | Farewell — and thank you

Southwest Florida is losing another landmark. The Shell Factory & Nature Park says this will be its last weekend. The attraction will permanently close and plans are that the site will be sold, a decision owner Pam Cronin said is “The most difficult I have ever made in my ...

Editorial | Solutions overdue

If Americans are not grieving this week, we should be. An assassination attempt that failed by a fraction of an inch. A mass shooting in the making that does not meet the FBI definition only because three of the four victims survived and a Secret Service sniper took the shooter out in ...

The Class of ’24 does not need to hear the classic gird- up-for-the-next-step-on-your-journey trope — these graduating seniors know very well that life not only is not “fair,” but it can dump literal piles of debris in one’s everyday path. In an interview with The Breeze regarding ...

Don’t blame animal services

We have come to dread the spring. Yes, we love the perfect temperatures — not too hot, not too cold. We enjoy the breeze on the lanai. But every year, just when the weather in Southwest Florida turns perfect — warm sunny days, cool breezy nights, we get the perennial notification: ...

Editorial | Free Bird

Call us old or call us old school but the ZZ Top/Lynyrd Skynyrd show at Hertz Arena rocked the house Saturday night. The bill opened with Black Stone Cherry and closed with an encore performance of “Free Bird” to rousing applause and a guest appearance by Lee County’s own rock-star ...

Editorial | New focus for old favorite

Those who look forward to rides, carnival games and, of course, the annual indulgence of fair fare, are not going to find the newly rebranded Southwest Florida Ag Expo lacking the things that made the old regional fair a staple for generations of Lee Countians. The Ferris wheel and funnel ...