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Protect our right to petition

To the editor: Anyone who has lived in Southwest Florida is well aware how degraded our area’s waterways have become, and the groundwater resources we can’t see have been depleted to a point where lawn/yard watering has been restricted. The current drought further exacerbates these issues. A citizen ballot initiative that will address these problems for all of Florida, the Right To Clean Water (RTCW), is currently collecting signatures to appear on the 2026 voter ballot. However, the bills (one in the Senate and one in the House) are quickly winding their way to a vote that would ...

Right to petition almost gone

To the editor: Very quietly our Florida legislators are destroying average citizens’ right to petition their government, a fundamental right that allows citizens to peacefully ask for their grievances and concerns to be heard. This is an essential right that allows citizens to participate in governmental change, legislators can be held accountable, and that all of this is done peacefully. Florida HB 1205 has already passed and SB7016 looks to be passed soon. The compromise bill that emerges will then go to Gov. DeSantis for his signature into law. Members of the Florida Right to ...

Residents of Florida losing their First Amendment rights?

To the editor: Do you like being part of the nanny state? In recent years, the state government has taken away the ability of local governments to control their own futures. The state through last year’s sprawl law favored developers over Home Rule. The state has mandated what cannot be taught or even discussed in public schools, no local decisions allowed. This year the target is the right to gather petitions to support proposed constitutional amendments. Last year despite spending tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money fighting the abortion rights and legalization of ...

The U.S. Constitution is the people’s document

To the editor: I’d like to submit the following as an open letter to Rep. Byron Donald’s after last night’s Town Hall. Dear Congressman Donalds, Wow. Monday night’s town hall was — how do I say this diplomatically? — a masterclass in “intellectually honest” gaslighting. And yes, I put that term in quotation marks because you tossed it around so many times I started wondering if it was a nervous tic or just your way of saying, “Buckle up for some top-shelf condescension.” You really packed the night with moments, but there was one that rose above the rest for ...

Update for Cape Coral residents

To the editor: My recent Letter to the Editor regarded questions I had posed at the April 2 Council meeting and said I would report any answers I received.  There are some questions that were not answered and there are questions that  weren't answered completely. These were also emailed to council members so they can get these answers for us all. Question 1 (It is #1 for a reason and should have been the easiest to answer) What individual(s) in the City of Cape Coral are responsible to assure Developer's compliance with all requirements set forth in Resolution 209-24 "Comprehensive ...

The more things change…

To the editor: When the Rosen brothers were preparing what is now Cape Coral in the 1950s, they bulldozed all the trees... even the one on Pelican, under which was found a giant skeleton, according to one history book. Now comes city government doing the same a second time in Jaycee ...