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Brent Batten: Rubio's words fail to reassure
Published 5/23/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 4 comments
Reassuring words have a way of not matching up with reality, as those who recall the 1986 immigration bill will attest.
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Brent Batten: Collier has a starring role in coming attractions
Published 5/21/2013 at 4:40 a.m. 2 comments
One can't help but wonder if the laid-back, family friendly spot will connect with audiences waiting to see movies like "Iron Man 3" and "Oblivion."
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Brent Batten: Collier's been down this road before
Published 5/19/2013 at 5:30 a.m. 9 comments
The county doesn't need segments of roads. It needs a road network.
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Brent Batten: Hiller loses while losing, and while winning, Tuesday
Published 5/16/2013 at 4:42 a.m. 9 comments
Things didn't go the way of Hiller, the board's chairwoman, on several fronts.
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Brent Batten: They changed the name to what?
Published 5/14/2013 at 4:58 a.m. 8 comments
This is the story of a successful organization, much appreciated in Southwest Florida, which was caught up in a controversy over a name change.
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Brent Batten: Hiller going after Tober — again
Published 5/12/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 14 comments
The veil is off Collier County Commission Chairwoman Georgia Hiller's thinly veiled effort to oust county Medical Director Dr. Robert Tober.
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Brent Batten: Red flags over the beach, and it's only May
Published 5/9/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 2 comments
Red flags are going up over the beach at Naples and it has nothing to do with the impending hurricane season.
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Brent Batten: Hot topic of hot fueling
Published 5/7/2013 at 5:10 a.m. 4 comments
The already hot topic of hot fueling could grow even hotter in coming weeks as county officials and a key tenant at the Immokalee Regional Airport try to hammer out a lease.
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Brent Batten: Whistleblower's unwelcome message unifies commission
Published 5/5/2013 at 5:19 a.m. 82 comments
You have to give Randy Cohen credit.He has demonstrated the unique ability to get all five Collier County commissioners to agree on something.
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Brent Batten: Madam Secretary, I have some questions
Published 5/2/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 197 comments
There are some questions I would have liked to ask former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her trip to Naples Tuesday.
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Brent Batten: Sequester fix taps into FAA fund backing Collier projects
Published 4/30/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 2 comments
The money being used by the FAA to keep air traffic controllers on the job is being pulled from the pot that funds airport improvements such as those planned for Marco Island and Immokalee.
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Brent Batten: County commissioners, staff all mixed up
Published 4/28/2013 at 7:32 a.m. 30 comments
What is hiding inside the likes of Georgia Hiller and Fred Coyle?
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Brent Batten: Beach flop not bid-ness as usual
Published 4/25/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 61 comments
What the county got was no bids at all from companies that dredge sand from the Gulf floor and pump it onto the beach.
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Brent Batten: The Artis formerly known as Phil
Published 4/23/2013 at 5:30 a.m. 50 comments
The decision of the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts — The Phil, familiarly — to rename itself Artis-Naples has all the making of a rebranding disaster.
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Brent Batten: Coyle: Show me the money, or at least the cancelled checks
Published 4/21/2013 at 5:00 a.m. 59 comments
Coyle sees that as a stark contrast to Brock's reputation as someone who scrutinizes in exhaustive detail the use of taxpayer money.
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