Leon J. Podles :: DIALOGUE

My local newspaper, The Naples Daily News, reports
A woman was arrested on burglary charges after being found standing in a person’s garage naked with items loaded in the back of a truck, Collier County sheriff’s deputies say.
Amber Marie Welsh, 32, of the 1700 block of Sunshine Boulevard, Golden Gate, was arrested Thursday by deputies in [...]

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We are in our Florida house, and I look forward to more headlines like this from the Naples News about the local wildlife:

Cow Attacks Man, Wife Hits Animal With Truck to Save Husband.

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 Although I had hopes for Ave Maria University when I heard it would locate in Naples, Florida, (at last, someone who could talk about something other than golf!) I began having suspicions that Tom Monaghan had control issues. He wanted a town where he could control everything, and I mean everything. The staff would dress [...]

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My daughter, a painter who has fled Florida for a northern art school, is visiting us in Naples and noticed the progress of the arts in the town of Ave Maria, Florida. The Naples Daily News reports:
The Ave Maria Gallery and History Exhibit has opened in La Piazza, the town center of Ave Maria, a [...]

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The newspapers in southern Florida, amid the sheafs of inceasingly despondent real estate ads, have stories that capture the essence of life that has spent too much time in the sun. The Naples Daily News reports in its year-end summary:
Hearing cries of “shark” doesn’t usually prompt people to whip out a gun and blast away [...]

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