All serious candidates go into the Election Day feeling confident that they are going to win. Months of knocking on doors, raising money, and asking friends, family, church members, co-workers, acquaintances, etc. for their vote all comes to a head when everyone goes to the polls.
The local primary election is written in the books (thank goodness), we are glad that part is over. This county election was nastier than any I’ve seen before. The lies perpetuated as truth, more postcard mailers than ever before, ghost candidates (some maybe fraudulent) and those hitching their wagon to a blogger (all of whom lost) brought out the voters who really wanted change. So, congratulations to the voters of this county for standing up and letting your voice be heard – and for bringing about the change our county needed.
The progressive left, alias democrat party, is promoting division and hate among the citizens of our country. We have different ideas and we should be able to debate them without resorting to name calling and threats. Then reach logical conclusions. Taking deceptive and corrupt action to secure and maintain power is wrong. The constant drumming of division by identity and hate has yielded fruit in the assassination attempt of Donald Trump a former President and a candidate for the presidency of the United States.
Anyone who has read my columns in the past knows I’m not the biggest fan of the Florida High School Athletic Association.
I’ve been critical. A lot. But when it comes to the FHSAA being at fault for the chaos that has ensued with high school athletes transferring, you are looking in the wrong direction. Look over to Tallahassee instead.
My wife and I had houseguests not long ago, decades-old friends from southeast Florida that we had not seen in years. Our friends had never been to this part of Florida, so a significant part of our “catching up” conversation was dedicated to describing what life is like here on the Florida panhandle.
I’m a full-time Navarre resident. I support incorporating Navarre, and I will express it to anyone but only if they ask or complain about the seemingly unchecked development and diminishing quality of life in Navarre. Typically, I’m not a bomb-thrower, but the very fact that our county commissioners have denied Navarre residents the fundamental right to choose how they will be governed by refusing to have the issue of Navarre incorporation appear on the ballot is uncontestable evidence that Navarre residents should choose to incorporate in an upcoming independent straw vote.
You should probably get your calendars out and mark down the following local activities.
Labor Day is Monday – Sept. 2 and since most of you won’t be “laboring” you might want to consider going to Juana’s for the Navarre Krewe of Jesters Annual Labor Day Rubber Duck Derby and Mullet Toss will be held Monday, Sept. 2, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Juana’s Pagodas (1451 Navarre Beach Causeway) on Navarre Beach. This event is fun for the whole family and is a fundraiser for the Krewe’s scholarship fund and Mardi Gras parade.
Should Navarre incorporate?
That’s the only question voters in the Navarre incorporation area will see on the ballot on Oct. 12 in a straw poll election meant to get the consensus of the community.
Rewind for a moment to late January of 2015. Navarre’s soccer team is in a regional final on its home turf.
It’s my first week or two on the job here at the Navarre Press and my first time seeing Emily (Madril) Sams in person on the field. Sams and the Raiders were playing for the right to go to the state final four.
I have noticed a recent trend – well, a trend I call recent because I just noticed it – people thanking the universe. I first heard it a few years ago from the lips of an acquaintance, who had just come through a very dark period of depression. He emerged thanking the universe for his recovery. My initial, unspoken reaction was, “I wonder where he got that notion?” Since then, I have noticed an uptick in the number of people, celebrity and average Joe alike, thanking the universe.
