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It looks like Doug Dailey won’t be North Fort Myers’ honorary mayor for life after all. After nearly a decade, the North Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce ha
Robin McKeever and Al Giacalone Special to The News-Press This is your wake-up call, Florida, and we need your help to save affordable housing. Last week, Senate President Wilton Simpson and Speaker of the House Chris Sprowls unveiled legislation, HB 5401 and SPB 2512, to permanently redirect two-thirds of the housing trust funds each year to sea level rise and wastewater infrastructure projects. That’s some serious money that won’t be available to teachers, firefighters, nurses and other first responders for housing assistance. If this legislation passes, 66% of the $423 million availa...