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The Farmer File: ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ and leave the theater
Published 9/1/2010 at 3:25 p.m. 1 comment
The night my wife, another couple and I went to the movies to see the Julia Roberts big deal film, “Eat, Pray, Love,” the husband half of the other couple leaned over as we sat down and said, “Don, do ...
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Brent Batten: Supreme Court draws line through Amendment 7
Published 9/1/2010 at 3:00 p.m. 0 comments
The Florida Supreme Court has removed three items, all promoted by the Republican-led Legislature, from the slate of proposed constitutional amendments.
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Chris Griffith: Winter, spring, summer and listing season
Published 9/1/2010 at 1:50 p.m. 2 comments
Where our northern friends list their homes for the summer, a lot of the Southwest Florida real estate is listed in the fall. Those fresh real estate listings are going to be priced according to recent comparable sales and competing ...
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Brent Batten: I hate robocalls _ Press 1 if you agree...
Published 8/30/2010 at 4:24 p.m. 2 comments
Any notion that the political class had maxed out the phone’s potential by having one recording device speak to another recording device is dispelled now by revelations of a new robo _ the robopoll.
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JEFF LYTLE: The simple collection outpost last weekend at a Publix in North Naples.
Published 8/28/2010 at 3:02 p.m. 1 comment
I avoid calling them veterans organizations. So let me be precise.
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BEN BOVA: Through science forecast calls for even better weather predicting
Published 8/28/2010 at 2:47 p.m. 0 comments
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
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Richard White: Open most committee meetings to members
Published 8/28/2010 at 5:00 a.m. 0 comments
Open most committee meetings to members
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Our World: All about the climb
Published 8/27/2010 at 5:44 p.m. 0 comments
Lifting yourself up is the hardest part. True in life. True in aerial silks. “The goal is to create an illusion that it’s easy,” said Karen Sipe, right, the instructor for the aerial silks class, part of Gymnastics World Dance ...
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Brent Batten: Updated FEMA maps based on decade-old data
Updated 8/28/2010 at 3:29 p.m. 3 comments
A drawn out process of revisions and appeals dating back to 1996 resulted in “new” flood zone maps based on readings taken before the development boom of the 2000s took place.
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The Farmer File: Our property value tax pickle
Published 8/26/2010 at 9:52 a.m. 12 comments
When I got my property tax bill recently I thought it was a joke. Was I on “Candid Camera” or was I one of Ashton Kutcher’s victims on the TV show “Punk’d?” No such luck. In the midst of a ...
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Brent Batten: Incumbents survive round one
Updated 8/25/2010 at 5:34 p.m. 2 comments
But based on Tuesday’s results, people aren’t ready to throw them out of “Our House,” just yet.
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Guest Commentary: Are city leaders creating a conflict of interest?
Published 8/24/2010 at 12:04 p.m. 1 comment
As many Marcoites know, a group has been working toward the objective of establishing a Charter High School on Marco Island (formally known as Marco Island Discovery Center). Their formal charter application has been submitted to the Collier County School ...
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Brent Batten: Those aren't tears (on the first day of school), it's raining out
Published 8/23/2010 at 3:47 p.m. 3 comments
It was as if the heavens were sending out a warning to the school staff _ “Something onery this way comes.”
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Commentary: Our votes are more than mere wishes on a star
Published 8/21/2010 at 3:00 p.m. 0 comments
When you wish upon a star. Makes no difference who you are
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JEFF LYTLE: If only they had known.
Published 8/21/2010 at 1:02 p.m. 2 comments
If only the current crop of candidates had known how much fun and rewarding it can be to serve as an elected official, they would have run a lot harder.
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