Roger Williams

1 week ago | fortmyers.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

The digital ad from True Shot Ammo carried a brand-new message to electronic subscribers earlier this month: “Restock Today Before Tariffs Hit.”It didn’t say what tariffs, but it offered 500 rounds of 5.56mm ammunition for $234.99, down from $263 it claimed, or 1,000 rounds of 9mm for $239.99, down from $260. That’s one reaction to economic changes in communities across Florida and the nation.

1 week ago | fortmyers.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

I am not encouraging you to drink grain alcohol, the primary ingredient in vodka, whiskey and gin, and a significant factor in a growing beer market worth about $330 billion this year, according to FHA Food & Beverage. Or to drink wine. Or, for that matter, soda pop. And certainly not before 5 p.m.But if you do, there are a few things to know: Wine is about 85% water, beer at least 90% and soda pop the same or more.

1 week ago | fortmyers.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

Part reality, part myth, the rags-to-riches American dream is nevertheless as real as sunshine in the life of Robert “The Barricade Baron” Brownlee. You know Bob, as people called him, at least if you’ve driven through road construction sites in Florida under the guidance and safe direction of “Bob’s Barricades.”He created both the company and the thing itself starting more than half a century ago in his backyard, along with an extraordinary Florida story.

2 weeks ago | naples.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

When the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals just the other day put the kibosh on a lawsuit filed by farm corporations to stop or alter the use of a big reservoir with flanking wetlands long-planned south of Lake Okeechobee, environmentalists screamed with pleasure. But I was disappointed. We have a great tradition in this country of doing what we want to do with property we own, private property. It’s ours, not our neighbors. Not the government’s. Ours.

2 weeks ago | naples.floridaweekly.com | Roger Williams

Whenever someone uses language like this to propose an alternative for young people who might otherwise be set adrift on a trackless sea of open calendar space between late May and mid-August, you can bet they aren’t talking to children: “Camp helps children develop important social, emotional and cognitive skills. Best of all, children create memories that last a lifetime at camp.”Children may not be interested in cognitive skills, for example, but they don’t mind being smart.