Page 4 - LIN-December 2024-web-file

Life in Naples is proud to be
an award-winning magazine
nd
2 Place for
Public Service Reporting in 2020
Life in Naples named in
a message from your publisher Top Three Magazines
in SW Florida

Life in Naples
Life in Naples

THE MAGAZINE OF NAPLES

Volume 14 • Issue 8 • December 2024

1415 Panther Lane, Suite #418
Naples, FL 34109
239.572.0051
Who Would Have Ever Thought?
reg@regbuxton.com
As I write the following on Election Night, 11/5/24,
many thoughts and questions come to my mind. www.LifeInNaples.net
How can Collier County and the State of Florida do elections
so well when other states are so facebook.com/LifeInNaplesMagazine
disorganized and take forever to get x.com/LifeInNaplesMag
results to the public?
When our forefathers laid the
foundation for our democracy, Text Copyright 2024 all rights reserved.
would they have, in their wildest No part of this publication may be reproduced in any
dreams ever thought of the
following becoming reality: form by any electronic or mechanical means without
• Elected officials who make a full permission from the publisher. Life in Naples regrets that
time career out of being elected. no responsibility can be accepted for unsolicited material.
• Name-calling, lies, and cheating Opinions expressed by contributors or advertisers are not
have become commonplace necessarily those of the publisher.
among candidates.
• Elected officials would lose sight
of why they were elected and who
they are supposed to serve. publisher Reg Buxton
• Casting a vote could be done
over many weeks, not just on one interested in advertising Reg: 239.572.0051
day, making it easier than ever to ensure each voter’s voice is
heard. contributing writers Bill Barnett
• The postal service would one day make it so that voting Sandra Lee Buxton
could be done without ever leaving home.
• That journalists and news media would, instead of doing Diana Jarrett
their job to tell the truth, revel in outright lies in their Lois Bolin
reporting just to drive up viewer numbers and manufacture Jeff Lytle
outrage. Claudia Polzin
• Some would vote not for a candidate, but, instead, against a Paula Allia
candidate. Tina Osceola
• Voters would be afraid to cast their vote because it was too
dangerous to do so. graphic design YB Design Studio
• That money, instead of the talent to serve, would be what
puts many candidates in office.
I have seen many elections come and go, and each time one
does, they move just a little bit further from what they should be.
What our democracy that millions fought and died for to protect Life in Naples Magazine
should be. And it is on nights like tonight that I can’t help but is now a Community
wonder how and why we strayed so far. Partner of the

4 www.LifeInNaples.net