I.M. STACKEL

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Beat: Collier County growth

Started at the Daily News: February 2001

Bio: 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.

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.

Recent stories:

• Díaz-Balart evita un debate con Joe García
  August 21, 2008
• Complaint filed against Collier commissioner for violation of campaign contribution limit
  August 20, 2008
• Candidates for Collier commission have their own ideas to balance budget
  August 20, 2008
• Collier declares state of emergency; three schools to open as shelters
  August 18, 2008
• Emergency managers weigh Fay, area residents hard to sway
  August 16, 2008
• Barbs fly between congressional candidates over debate
  August 15, 2008
• Collier clerk ordered to cover his potential losses in suit with county
  August 14, 2008
• Renuncia Presidente del Comité Ejecutivo Democrático de Collier
  August 14, 2008
• Collier Democratic chairman not resigning after all
  August 13, 2008
• Squabble over Collier’s investment income returns to court
  August 13, 2008
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