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Sparker’s Soapbox has released Vote Smart Collier County: A Nonpartisan Guide for Collier County Voters, which provides factual, nonpartisan information about how local, state, and federal government are structured and how Florida’s election system operates. As Collier County continues to…
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One can imagine what it must be like for a political party when the realization finally sinks in, that moment when it’s clear its actions fail to meet the promised expectations. It’s like a huckster realizing the mark…
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“One of the things that will happen, as surely as the sun will rise, is that someone will lie: Your governments will lie to you. Sometimes unknowingly, but more often on purpose.” — Ben Bradlee The late Washington…
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The modern world of sports media looks completely different from the one Marc Appleman entered in 1983, when he became a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times. The veteran sports journalist joined the Press Club of Southwest Florida…
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Hopefully, Will Rogers was watching from heaven when Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was recently interviewed by Major Garrett on CBS Morning News. Blanche appeared on the program to discuss the grand jury indictment of former FBI Director…
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At the time of this writing, the gunman who attempted to crash the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night did so less than 12 hours ago. Already, the conspiracy machine is spitting out its usual slop: Trump’s…
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The Press Club of Southwest Florida will welcome veteran sports media executive and author Marc Appleman as its featured speaker at the Newsmaker Luncheon on Friday, April 24, 2026, at Lujack’s Restaurant in Naples. The luncheon begins at…
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I keep thinking about something the historian Yuval Noah Harari said recently, matter-of-factly, but with the weight of history behind it: In the contest between fiction and truth, fiction usually wins because “…the competition between fiction and truth,…
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The Press Club of Southwest Florida will welcome veteran sports media executive and author Marc Appleman as its featured speaker at the Newsmaker Luncheon on Friday, April 24, 2026, at Lujack’s Restaurant in Naples. The luncheon begins at…
