Don Farmer

Marco Movies owner Nick Campo has lots to be happy about on this Oscar night weekend. Our now digitally enhanced multi-screen cinema has had a flurry of fine films, several of which are nominated for Oscars in the big show ...

Here's a quick quiz to make a point about shopping for retail merchandise in Collier County:

I realized Americans must be getting dangerously forgetful when I heard a radio public service announcement urging us to check the car seat so we don't leave the baby behind.

As Southwest Floridians and other Americans prepare to observe, celebrate, ignore or flee from Halloween this year, predictions on the economic impact of the haunt-happy holiday are like a witch's brew — mixed.

A man with a national clientele who calls himself a "menu engineer" is helping a local enterprise maximize the impact of its menu.

You're taking your iPad or smartphone with you as you walk from your desk to the office break room for a bit of Internet browsing and a bite from the vending machine.

In this political campaign season, much is made of the relationship of business and government.

A lot of American children have visions of making a life and a living tending to the likes of Flipper, Lassie, Rin Tin Tin or maybe a family of gentle giraffes. One local enterprise with a workplace that has a ...

If you know anyone who has an iPhone 4S, you’re probably hiding in your cubicle at work or in the garage at home, hoping the iPhoner won’t find you. Being a recent purchaser of this latest Apple-built marvel, it’s hard ...

Medicare occupies such a huge chunk of America’s health care environment that when the program is ill, most of us feel the pain or care about someone who does.

Halloween used to be a mostly homemade scary, spooky thing. Now, this holiday once dominated by mommy’s little ghosts and witches has morphed into a green holiday. Not green as in weird old Al Gore or stupid new light bulbs, ...

This should be about the most exciting time of the year for baseball fans, except for those of us who are ardent fans of one of the 22 teams that didn’t advance to post-season play. As I watched my team, ...

Talking with friends who are grandparents in the aftermath of National Grandparents Day this year, I asked them what their grandchildren call them. That produced a lot of smiles and a rush of great grand names — Gammies, Mammies, Maamaws ...

Sometimes an interesting idea bursts into the public awareness, only to flame out in the face of indifference or daunting obstacles. Here’s one that may survive because of the fervor for it — the desire to have a very large ...

Most moviegoers know Hollywood is always pushing, testing, trying to get more naughty words, anatomical bits and other titillations into their films. Now they’re getting bolder, pushing the limits set up by their own industry.