============================================================ DIGITAL DIGEST � http://www.bonitanews.com � November 4, 2004 ============================================================ Subscribe to the Bonita Daily News: http://web.naplesnews.com/circulation/ SMOOTH SAILING ON BUSIEST ELECTION DAY IN LEE�S HISTORY When Lee County Supervisor of Elections Sharon Harrington arrived at work on Wednesday, there were still more than 40,000 votes left to count from Tuesday�s election. In addition to provisional ballots, there were thousands of absentee ballots that had to be recopied before they could be read. Harrington said the demand for absentee ballots � more than 52,000 were sent out and 47,134 returned � meant some people had to be sent copies of the absentee ballot. LOCAL RESIDENTS REFLECT ON PRESIDENT BUSH�S RE-ELECTION All signs pointed to the re-election of President George W. Bush on Wednesday after his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry, issued a midday concession statement. Less than 140,000 votes separated the two men in the decisive state of Ohio, which, rather than Florida, became the immediate center of post-election controversy. DEFRAUD VICTIM SUGGESTS ONE-YEAR SENTENCE, JUDGE AGREES Despite pleas of mercy for Sharon Biasella as she, her family and her friends asked a judge to let her keep her freedom, it was Biasella�s victim, her former employer from whom she admitted to stealing more than $160,000 in fraudulent credit card charges, who sent her to jail Wednesday. �I think a year incarceration would be appropriate here,� Stanley Star told Collier Circuit Court Judge Lawrence D. Martin at the sentencing for Biasella. ATTORNEYS FOR FIRED SAFETY DIRECTOR CLAIM SCHOOL DISTRICT�S LAWYERS OBSCURING FACTS Local school district lawyers are obscuring facts in the case of a former administrator who says he was fired for blowing the whistle on hazardous safety violations, his attorneys said. Ernie Scott, former Lee County School District safety director, filed a federal civil lawsuit last year against the district alleging his First Amendment rights were violated by being punished for speaking out about air quality and fire safety problems in the schools. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com IN PERSPECTIVE: DALE MCFEATTERS: FREE ADVICE FOR PRESIDENT BUSH IN HIS SECOND TERM President Bush has been re-elected. Serves him right. He inherits � admittedly from himself � a war that�s going badly, a soaring deficit that will put any expensive new initiatives out of reach, a badly divided country, a suspect economy and a Republican Congress that didn�t pay much attention to him in his first term and will pay him none at all in his second. Read more commentary and get local editorials and today�s Letters to the Editor at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/perspective/ IN FLORIDA MARTINEZ IS FIRST CUBAN-AMERICAN ELECTED TO U.S. SENATE Republican Mel Martinez�s election as the first Cuban-American to the U.S. Senate was topped Wednesday with a congratulatory phone call from President Bush and the presentation of a �Class of 2005� ball cap by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Martinez�s thin victory was cemented only after Democratic opponent Betty Castor conceded Wednesday morning, almost 16 hours after most polls closed in Florida. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/florida/ IN NEAPOLITAN: REVIEW: OPTIC VERVE ... THE VISION OF VICTOR VASARELY The Naples Museum of Art�s handsome homage to op art master Victor Vasarely should bring instant recognition to viewers who recall this artist�s internationally famous work in the 1960s-80s and its influence on other artists. Whether Vasarely (1906-97) should be called �founder of op art,� which is this show�s title, is open to interpretation, since the combining forms of Dutch master M.C. Escher (1898-1972) came first. Get details on all these stories and more at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/neapolitan/
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