Scott Lawson

PUNTA GORDA — The 2026 Sun Coast Home & Hurricane Expo was bringing out hundreds of people to the Charlotte Harbor Event & Conference Center on Saturday.

I’ll never get a chance to speak at a high school or college graduation, but this is the timeframe when those speeches are being heard.

VENICE — Amid the hundreds of graduates in attendance on Friday were Fatheads of favorite seniors, fans for the heat and families screaming their grad's name.

Scott Lawson is on vacation in Alaska.

Scott Lawson is on vacation in Alaska. Here is a column originally written in August, 2025.

Scott Lawson is on vacation in Alaska. This column is probably not what’s going on up there.

There are times in life when you hear Johnny Carson mimicking his Carnac the Magnificent character and saying “I did not know that.”

Sure, tarpons and rockets are pretty fast, but few things fly by as quickly as your child’s first 18 years.

of 7 A newly hatched sea turtle works to navigate over sand, rocks and sargassum in an effort to get to the Gulf waters on Sunday, July 12, 2026.

of 3 The Florida Department of Transportation has enacted new rules forbidding fishing from the bridges over the Peace River along U.S. 41.