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Guest Commentary | World-class cancer care should be accessible, convenient

Cancer can strike anyone, anywhere. Your wealth, your job title, your genealogy, your geography… it doesn’t matter. No one is immune to being diagnosed with cancer. The recent revelation of former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer proves that even someone receiving the best medical ...

Guest Commentary | There is hope for adults living with mental illness

Mental illness runs in his family. Matthew’s own personal nightmare began with a diagnosis of bipolar schizoaffective disorder in 2014 at age 29. Up until then, Matthew was rapidly climbing the ladder of success at an extremely popular social media company. Loss of his cognitive ability ...

Change in public input time is cause for concern

To the editor: On July 23, the Cape Coral City Council voted to keep the meeting structure that positions the citizen input segment at the end of the meeting agenda and after all voting has occurred. Residents must also submit comment cards prior to the meeting in order to participate in the ...

Citizen input should come first

To the editor: The Breeze reports that council consent agenda failed again on citizen input times. According to Council, the whole idea of citizens input at the end of the meeting was to promote efficiency as this is a business meeting.  This was supported by the council member for ...

Nothing to laugh about

To the editor: I hate to pile on about Cape Coral mismanagement and overall incompetence but the failures are almost comical if those failures weren’t funded by taxes and borrowing in our name. For months, several neighbors tried to get the hyacinths cleared from Lake Kennedy. We called ...

Those who save for retirement should not be penalized

To the editor: As a Trump supporter, I’m a little embarrassed to point out the inconvenient truth of Trump’s plan to take control of the Federal Reserve. Trump wants to lower to Fed’s interest rate to help control the massive interest that is due on the government’s debt. With an ...