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WATCH LIVE: Naples mayoral, city council candidate forum

WGCU Staff

Forum with candidates for Naples mayoral and city council can be watched live on the WGCU Facebook page, or Naples City TV on local cable stations Comcast Cable 98, Century Link 95, and Summit Cable 98. It will be recorded and re-broadcast for WGCU’s Gulf Coast Life sometime before the March 19th election.

Journalists and photographers of the News-Press and Naples Daily News, spent Monday morning cleaning up on Bonita Beach. The staff of the Fort Myers News-Press and the Naples Daily News went on a one-day strike Monday, June 5, in the hope that it will get them a fair contract from Gannett, America’s biggest newspaper publisher. The papers' workers unionized as the Southwest Florida News Guild in 2020 under the auspices of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America, but staffers say they still don’t have a contract.

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Local news staff on one-day strike at Gannett newspapers Monday; cite mismanagement, no contract

Cary Barbor

Local newspaper reporters and photographers in Fort Myers and Naples are staging a one-day strike Monday. Workers at The News-Press and Naples Daily News unionized as the Southwest Florida News Guild in 2020 under the auspices of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America. They have not yet been able to get Gannett, which owns both publications, to agree to a contract.

Crime

The Last Ride - Episode 5: Good Guy or Bad Cop?

Who is Steven Calkins? Friends from his past shed light on his life in Ottawa, Illinois before moving to Naples, Florida, to become a deputy. What was he like as a cop? Were there any clues that Calkins was the kind of guy who would do something to these men? What was the probability that Calkins meeting both Felipe and Terrance before they vanished was a pure coincidence?