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Ten to watch in 2013

Michel Fortier/Staff Tourism levels always have a dramatic impact on Southwest Florida, both good and bad. While season appears to have started early this year, time will tell if visitors are back in larger numbers this year.

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Tourism levels always have a dramatic impact on Southwest Florida, both good and bad. While season appears to have started early this year, time will tell if visitors are back in larger numbers this year.

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  • Dania Maxwell/Staff Republican Trey Radel, left, his wife Amy Wegmann Radel, center, and their son, Jude, right, celebrate Trey's victory in the primary elections for his seat in congress for district 19 at the Trianon Bonita Bay Hotel on Tuesday, August 14, 2012 in Bonita Springs, Fla.
  • Collier County Commissioner Georgia Hiller asks questions during a public comment portion of a commission meeting July 26, 2011 in Naples. Lexey Swall/Staff
  • In this file photo, Collier County Economic Development Director candidate, Bruce Register, talks with members of the public during a meet and greet sponsored by the Naples Area Board of Realtors at HB's on the Gulf in the Naples Beach Hotel on Friday Dec. 7, 2012.
  • Jason Easterly/Special to the Daily News Myra Janco Daniels gives thanks to key members of the Naples Phil as Governor Rick Scott, from left, First Lady Ann Scott, Chairman of the Philharmonic Board Alan Hilfiker, and Commissioner Fred Coyle and Naples Mayor Bill Barnett look on during the 'Thank You Myra' Day open house at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples on Sunday afternoon. Daniels is the founder of the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples and served as its CEO from the day it opened in 1989 to Sept. 1, 2011.
  • SP_330251_FOUN_CRIST_9 EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN | Times (11/02/2010 St. Petersburg) Florida Governor and independent United States Senate candidate Charlie Crist campaigned at the corner of 4th Street North and 22nd Avenue North after voting at the Coliseum in St. Petersburg on Tuesday morning. Today voters will decide if he will become Florida's next senator. [EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN, Times]
  • Michel Fortier/Staff Tourism levels always have a dramatic impact on Southwest Florida, both good and bad. While season appears to have started early this year, time will tell if visitors are back in larger numbers this year.
  • Richter uses play money to explain taxes. State Senator Garrett Richter paid a visit to Jennifer Sickels' second grade class at Tommie Barfield Elementary School on Friday, teaching a civics lesson through Junior Achievement. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • William DeShazer/Staff Tim Nance is sworn in as the newest county commissioner at the Collier Government Center on Tuesday Dec. 11, 2012.
  • Scott McIntyre/Staff Scenes from Edison State College President Jeff Allbritten address to faculty in his first convocation at the Barbara B. Mann Center on Monday, August 20, 2012.
  • Florida Gov. Rick Scott gestures as protestors chant 'pink slip Rick' before he delivers the State of the State speech Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, during the first day of the Florida legislative session in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

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