http://naplesnews.com/staff/im_stackel/<P><B>Beat:</B> Collier County growth</P> <P><B>Started at the Daily News:</B> February 2001</P> <P><B>Bio:</B> I was born and reared in Brooklyn, N.Y., in a small boating community that -- in the 1950s -- looked a lot like Naples without the palm trees. I entered Brooklyn College in 1970, but the first five years of the 70s was still "the sixties," so I was way too busy traveling and experimenting with life to get a degree. I always wrote. When I was in grade school, we used to listen to a Board of Education-produced news show called, "Let's Look at the News." Students were encouraged to write in letters addressing issues. We all did that. It was a sign of the times. Remember, that I was 10 when the Cuban Missile Crisis went down, and we all thought the world was coming to an end. While my first "grown-up" job was in Jerusalem in 1973 just after the Yom Kippur War, I spent most of the 1970s writing poetry. I was a travel writer during the 1980s and early 1990s, mostly covering Asia, the South Pacific and the Caribbean. </P> <P>My spare time is spent exploring the same subjects and issues that have always fascinated me: geotectonics, spiritual belief systems, love, the anthropology of food. The latter is nicer than saying I obsessively collect and read cookbooks.</P>en-ushttp://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/04/marco-collier-leaders-talk-about-money/Collier leaders skeptical about Marco Island proposal to raise moneyFri, 05 Dec 2008 00:43:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/04/marco-collier-leaders-talk-about-money/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/03/collier-county-manager-voluntary-separations-neede/Collier County manager: Voluntary separations needed as revenues dropWed, 03 Dec 2008 17:17:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/03/collier-county-manager-voluntary-separations-neede/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/02/collier-commissioners-discuss-how-use-dwindling-la/Collier commissioners discuss how to use dwindling landscaping fundsWed, 03 Dec 2008 01:29:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/02/collier-commissioners-discuss-how-use-dwindling-la/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/02/collier-commissioners-will-consider-ordinances-kee/Collier commissioners will consider ordinances to keep up appearancesTue, 02 Dec 2008 05:03:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/dec/02/collier-commissioners-will-consider-ordinances-kee/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/30/collier-commissioners-put-impact-fee-problem-hands/Collier commissioners put impact fee problem in hands of county’s Productivity CommitteeMon, 01 Dec 2008 02:54:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/30/collier-commissioners-put-impact-fee-problem-hands/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/30/collier-commission-consider-ordinance-curb-homeles/Collier commission to consider ordinance to curb homeless campingMon, 01 Dec 2008 02:04:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/30/collier-commission-consider-ordinance-curb-homeles/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/29/collier-lawmakers-jockey-space-taxpayer-supported-/Collier lawmakers jockey for space in taxpayer-supported officesSat, 29 Nov 2008 23:32:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/29/collier-lawmakers-jockey-space-taxpayer-supported-/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/21/phil-gramm-we-are-not-going-have-1930s-depression/Phil Gramm: We are not going to have a 1930’s DepressionSat, 22 Nov 2008 00:49:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/21/phil-gramm-we-are-not-going-have-1930s-depression/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/18/collier-commissioners-put-port-islands-marina-purc/Collier commissioners put off Port of the Islands marina purchaseWed, 19 Nov 2008 00:10:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/18/collier-commissioners-put-port-islands-marina-purc/http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/18/collier-county-spreads-around-excess-fees-taxes-an/Collier County spreads around excess fees, taxes and fines collectedTue, 18 Nov 2008 23:40:00 -0000http://naplesnews.com/news/2008/nov/18/collier-county-spreads-around-excess-fees-taxes-an/