Patricia Borns
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Southwest Florida troops promise 'business as usual' despite Boy Scouts of America Chapter 11 filing
Southwest Florida scout leaders have been sending a business-as-usual message to their members and volunteers since the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday morning against an onslaught of sexual abuse lawsuits. Lawyers for the abused say that remains to be seen. → Read More
Change is needed to end homelessness in Lee, advocates say
Ten years have passed since Lee County crafted a plan to end homelessness. How did it go? Not great. Speaking truth to power, impassioned advocates offered ideas to make an impact. → Read More
Heritage Heights is a new development model for Habitat homes in Lee County
Habitat for Humanity of Lee and Hendry Counties broke ground Friday on the largest neighborhood to be built in its 38-year history in Southwest Florida. → Read More
Fort Myers workers demand participation in local construction projects
As developments sprout in Fort Myers' Dunbar opportunity zone, residents in the city's poorest, most under-employed Census tract want a piece of the construction action. → Read More
Just in time for tax season: service with free legal representation opens for business in Southwest Florida
When Monica Dunkley feared IRS penalties could cost her her Cape Coral home, a new tax service, free for low-income residents, saved the day; a first in Southwest Florida. → Read More
Federal judge dismisses suit against City of Fort Myers for dumping toxic sludge
A federal judge dismissed Fort Myers' residents claims for damages arising from toxic landfill because - after over 60 years - the city cleaned it up. → Read More
Is a new owner in the wings for Fort Myers' affordable Jones Walker apartments?
While a Fort Myers housing project is reportedly on the sale block, saddled with hefty liens, a city councilman is organizing residents to make their complaints known. → Read More
Florida lawmakers get tough on terminating parental rights
When kids are removed from unsafe home situations, they enter a turnstile of temporary homes, sometimes for years. No more, law makers say. Parents have 12 months to get their acts together before their rights can be terminated. → Read More
Florida lawmakers get tough on terminating parental rights
When kids are removed from unsafe home situations, they enter a turnstile of temporary homes, sometimes for years. No more, law makers say. Parents have 12 months to get their acts together before their rights can be terminated. → Read More
Living conditions at Fort Myers' Sunrise Towers put tenants' housing vouchers at risk
A housing project in Fort Myers shows that Section 8, the ticket to decent, affordable housing, isn't working as intended. → Read More
Green space or detention ponds: Fort Myers asks which would you like near your home?
Spanning close to four acres in a residential neighborhood, the site that contained toxic lime sludge was recently cleared and excavated after 56 years. → Read More
You can go home again: More Southwest Florida foster kids are reuniting with their birth parents
The daughters of Shasta Hardesty and Jonathan Tobbe, ages 2 and 4, have spent more time with their foster parents than their real ones because of problems in the home. On Wednesday they celebrated a homecoming in Cape Coral. → Read More
Toxic sludge neighbors revive open dumping claim against city of Fort Myers
Lawyers for South Street residents have renewed their federal complaint that Fort Myers violated the EPA's open dumping rule because, they say, a former city employee said so. → Read More
Could this team win Southwest Florida's first medical marijuana license?
The black owner of FTG nursery and his partner, a third-generation white farmer, are jumping through hoops to qualify for a medical marijuana license worth tens of millions of dollars. → Read More
Housing in Southwest Florida: Can this nonprofit build apartments costing $600 a month?
Hurricane Irma may be a distant memory to some, but the affordable housing it destroyed left farm and other low wage workers destitute. An alliance of churches and nonprofits is building over 100 affordable apartments for them in Immokalee. → Read More
Housing in Southwest Florida: Can this nonprofit build apartments costing $600 a month?
Hurricane Irma may be a distant memory to some, but the affordable housing it destroyed left farm and other low wage workers destitute. An alliance of churches and nonprofits is building over 100 affordable apartments for them in Immokalee. → Read More
Florida's human trafficking bills stir hope and fear
A motel near Orlando is where Savannah Parvu was trafficked by her mother's drug dealer; the reason she helped craft anti-trafficking legislation. But while multiple bills are getting a thumbs' up, they may not be all Parvu and others hope. → Read More
Fort Myers affordable housing complex 'the Shack' is good to go, HUD says
Amidst cries of 'tear it down,' a 1970s housing project for the working poor gets a thumbs-up for its top-down makeover. → Read More
DEP blasts Fort Myers for using 'alternative' methods to assure toxic sludge cleanup
DEP tells Fort Myers to stop fudging on South Street cleanup testing and make sure it's done by the book. → Read More
Southwest Florida residents join rally cry to protect migrant children housed in Homestead
The migrant children keep coming, and the privately run Homestead detention center keeps growing. Local action groups rally to draw attention to ongoing family separations and abuses. → Read More