Some economists have been suggesting the recession is largely over, and the U.S. economy appears to be breathing new life. A major factor in this resuscitation is the ongoing stabilization and steps toward recovery in the real estate market. Sales ...

Over the last several months our community has struggled through the process known as the annual budget. This year has been somewhat more tedious than others due to the downturn in the economic conditions around the world. Failing financial institutions, ...

While reading the front page article in last Sunday’s Eagle, “City Budget Cuts Don’t Please All,” I became concerned about numerous misleading comments, including comparing our financial process to “renovating a house while it’s on fire,” and council’s direction to ...

Whether it is about family matters, business or a private battle with a neighbor, there comes a time in many disputes when working through to the resolution requires the involvement of third parties.

We are now more than half way through National Preparedness Month, and i we encourage your readers to take some time to be sure that they are prepared for disasters.

In football, when you feint one way to divert eyes from what you’re doing, it’s called the old misdirection play. In public policy, it’s called misleading and it ought to draw a penalty flag.

In today’s world there are too few times where an individual or an organization is given the credit which they most certainly deserve. On behalf of boaters, I would like to recognize the contribution made by Mr. Moss, Chief Reinke, ...

In February of 2009, a guest commentary by Marco Island Police Lt. Matt Goetz outlined Marco Island’s parking requirements/restrictions so that citizens would be aware of what the parking situation was throughout the Island, where parking could and could not ...

City Council clearly listens and responds to public comments and questions, and as we approach the budget public hearings residents are asking about changes to services and projects they can expect to see with the new budget.

Through the months of April, May and the early part of June of this year, residents of Marco Island were exposed to the saga of the longest, and perhaps most complex, Code Enforcement Board (CEB) series of hearings in Marco ...

City Council will begin budget workshops for the Fiscal Year 2010 beginning in early August. I would appreciate any and all responses to a few questions of my own.

Recently a former Marco Island resident and a chronic correspondent wrote their “histories” and their “facts” associated with the city’s purchase of the water and sewer systems in 2003. Since neither of them were involved with the purchase process and ...

A few weeks ago I published a letter in the local papers commending both LCEC and the City Council for the decision by LCEC not to have any further electric rate increases in 2009.

Marco Island Charter Middle School's "A" grade based on FCAT scores from the Florida Department of Education comes with continued improvement and increased diversity at a school that has continually made high marks.

Since childhood I have always had a caring and fond memory for the Fourth of July. Norman Rockwell, a great American artist, portrayed the freedoms we all hold dear, enough even to fight and die for as Americans did in ...