Naples Networking

Today’s fast-paced business environment means one thing; change is a certainty. A method of communication that has increased the speed of communication is e-mail. Once thought to be a luxury, it is as essential as any important business tool.

Since 2000, the hotel’s longtime owners, the Watkins family, have spent $55 million on additions and improvements, all in an effort to usher the historic hotel into a bright, new future.

Private insurers have had another year with no hurricanes, yet many remain on shaky financial ground as they weather non-hurricane losses and stormy investment markets that have hindered efforts to rebuild surpluses necessary to pay claims from the next big storm. State regulators have begun to take action against financially vulnerable companies and ratchet up rates at the state-run insurance pool that has become the largest insurer of property in Florida.

As Collier schools get deeper into the school year, several schools are seeing their student numbers increase greatly, as migrant students come back to town. In Immokalee, the number of migrant students enrolled in Collier County schools is 2,250, more than 29 percent of the population of the schools in the community.