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Planned Parenthood is a healthcare provider

To the editor: Federal funding for medicaid services was suspended July 4, 2025 for one year. The order expired July 4, 2026. Many political  advertisements stated that Planned Parenthood performs only abortions . This is not  the  truth. The Hyde Amendment passed in the 1970s stated ...

Big statement cost big bucks

To the editor: On Saturday, July 4, the tallest free-standing American flagpole in Florida, along with its flag, was officially unveiled during an Independence Day ceremony. Officials in Cape Coral have indicated that the funding for the Tallest Flagpole in Florida project would come from ...

Fines, citations called for

To the editor: Besides all of its other wonderful attributes, did you know that mangroves are one of the best trees at consuming carbon dioxide and producing oxygen? Updating my previous comments, it has been announced that, once again, work at the Seven Islands development has been ...

Where’s our city officials?

To the editor: The July 2 Norman Cannon letter “The buck stops with the developer” was nicely done giving the lowdown on the illegality and penalties of the mangrove destruction committed on June 12 by contractors for Forest Development on the Seven Islands in Cape Coral. Forest claims ...

Orchid Boulevard wrong place to spend $1 million on a sidewalk

To the editor: Cape Coral taxpayers deserve a better explanation before the city spends $1 million installing sidewalks on Orchid Boulevard. The stated rationale is “Safe Routes to School.”  But according to Lee County School District, there are only four students total living in the ...

Four Freedoms Park land grab

To the editor: I wrote a letter to The Breeze about a month ago regarding the mayor and the city council wanting to sell Four Freedoms Park to developers along with the 22 acres adjacent to the park that the city bought and had all the buildings on it razed. I was disgusted that the city ...