Phil Lewis

Registration is open for our 2010 Sunshine Seminar co-sponsored by the First Amendment Foundation and the Florida Bar Association.

A cardboard box was on my desk Friday morning when I entered the news room. Though the shipping tag, which was marked “priority, overnight,” indicated it was sent Thursday from Knoxville, Tenn., it was something I’d been expecting for nearly ...

The Naples Daily News editorial board has wrapped up its interviews with candidates whose names will be on the Aug. 24 primary ballots in Lee and Collier counties.

The Jackson Laboratory issue is generating dozens of letters to the editor and guest commentaries, hundreds of online comments and quite a few direct e-mails to the news room.

The Naples Daily News is going to co-host a Sunshine Seminar in September to better explain Florida’s public records and open meeting laws. Elected officials and the people who elect them — that would be the general public — will ...

A few months back I devoted a column to the weather, noting that in 2010 Naples recorded the coldest winter on record. It didn’t take long to heat up.

The naysayers of the state-county-federal effort to bring Jackson Laboratory to Collier County have loaded their quiver with all sorts of arrows to shoot holes in the proposed enterprise.

The Naples Daily News editorial board has lots of people to meet in the next 90 days. That’s because it’s an election year and for the past few decades the newspaper has interviewed and endorsed candidates for every local, state ...

One belt-tightening possibility contained in a report this past week to Naples City Council really causes me heartburn.

With gushing oil and a rush to wrap up the annual legislative session in Tallahassee, there’s plenty of fodder for commentary on Sunday, May 9, 2010. Here goes ...

This past Thursday afternoon there were protesters outside Wrigley Field in Chicago shouting “Boycott Arizona.” Think how pleasant that would have seemed this past winter.

Our newsroom can expect a series of emergency alerts from weather forecasters when the tropics spawn hurricanes each year. I’m sure the newsrooms of our peers up north get their own Internet alerts during the winter when blizzards threaten. We ...

Freedom of speech gets undying support from the wide majority, which, as an aside, is more than we can say about freedom of the press.

Senate Bill 6, which cleared the Florida Legislature in the wee hours of Friday morning, was Tallahassee’s version of the health-care legislation that caused such a ruckus in Washington last month.

The winter of 2010 was the coldest ever in Naples or at least since 1942, when the National Weather Service first started recording daily temperatures in the city.