Phil Lewis

Last week's column was about a change that is on the horizon for newspaper websites.

Change has always been part of the newspaper business. For more than two centuries, newspapers have morphed in what they offer and how they offer it.

Today's edition includes a special eight-page section on the future, including a review of the vision statements of a dozen or so government and civic entities in Southwest Florida.

Here's a quick quiz for longtime Southwest Florida residents as well as newcomers:

Florida it seems will host yet another trial of the decade when George Zimmerman is prosecuted for the death of Trayvon Martin.

This summer the Naples Daily News will turn 89.

Two Naples Daily News reports in 2011 have won Best of Scripps honors and will be recognized as part of the National Journalism Awards program to be held next month in Detroit.

Many, if not most of us in the past two weeks have been introduced to Joseph Kony.

When it comes to government in the sunshine, Florida tops the nation.

"Unique" is one of those words we still see on copy-editing tests. It frequently is misused, even abused.

A proposed state law that would have given Florida senators and representatives immunity from testifying or providing documents in civil lawsuits is dead — for now.

Close monitoring of what goes on in Tallahassee during the annual sessions of the Florida Legislature always brings to mind this quote:

Thanks for the emails, notes and phone calls in response to last Sunday's front-page "Letter to Readers" that announced a major Naples Daily News initiative called the Lighthouse Project.

On occasion in Tallahassee, bills are introduced in the State Legislature to amend Florida's Sunshine Law.

Two of the significant news stories that have come out of Tallahassee since the Florida Legislature opened its 2012 session this month deserve some comment