Opinion Archive

The effects of January’s cold weather in Santa Rosa County have many characteristics.

In addition to the realistic possibility of the occasional subfreezing thermometer readings and frosts, there is the quiet.

Forrest Gump told the lady at the bus stop, “My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get,” then he popped one into his mouth.

Clearly, that was before candy companies put key cards in the boxes because, Forrest, you can know exactly “what you’re gonna get.”

For all the teachers and educators in this county who work hard every day to make a difference in children’s lives, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you.

Reading is a fundamental skill that isn’t easy for all children to acquire. We celebrate those efforts and that skill during Literacy Week.

Between my current job and my former one, I have sat within a few feet of a police scanner for almost 25 years. 

It has been my background music, until a call comes in that requires our attention. Every emergency call is important, but from a news perspective, many are commonplace.

Clock-watching may prove counterproductive.

Unlike the Santa Rosa Board of County Commission meetings – one of which recently ran over six hours – the local legislators run on a tight schedule. When they call a meeting from 5:30 to 7, they mean it as more than a dozen constituents discovered last week.

Reader distraught over Trump’s treatment

The radical left, vengeful Democrats, “bad guys,” succeeded in blaming Trump, culminating their goal to destroy our president.  Shame on them!  “Not fit to serve.”  God thought so. 

Jan. 6, 2021 was a day of reckoning and decision.

The promoters of insurrection and domestic terrorism have no place as elected representatives in Florida or any state in our union.

‘Why a bridge and not a tunnel?’

We have and will have until sometime in March (or later) a problem getting to Pensacola. We know a barge destroyed a section of the bridge. The question is, “Why?”

Usually, January is a slow time for news but this year has certainly proved to be unusual.

Everyone’s keeping a close eye on Pensacola Bay Bridge reconstruction. If repairs continue on schedule, we’re only about two months away from returning to normalcy.

In seminary, future preachers are encouraged to collect potential sermon illustrations – emotion-packed, real-life stories, a funny joke or a personal life experience.

God must have realized that I would need extra help in this because he gave us Brewster.