Opinion Archive

Nov. 2, 2017 /Front Page:

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin was recently fired by President Trump. The appointment of Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, a rear admiral in the Navy, makes him the fourth Veterans Affairs secretary in four years. 

When I moved to Navarre in 1994, I joined the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.   I went to the first Friday Breakfasts and attended the committee meetings that pertained to my business.  

A visionary: thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom (Merriam-Webster). The Collins English Dictionary says if you refer to someone as a visionary, you mean that they have strong, original ideas about how things might be different in the future, especially about how things might be improved.

Frank Martin is one of the most animated coaches in basketball.

Downtown Cinema Plus in Fort Walton Beach, owned by Navarre entrepreneur, James Coleman, is showing “12 Strong” at 7 p.m. for a week beginning tomorrow, Friday, March 30. “12 Strong” tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11. A lot of our local airmen were there before and after this team was in Afghanistan and either met or worked alongside or in support of these brave men. It is an awesome movie and Downtown Cinema Plus is a fun place to go see movie and have dinner at the same time. Also, you can affordably rent the movie theater for birthday parties, bachelor/bachelorette parties and more. Check out their website at www.downtowncinemaplus.com.

Marylou Smiedendorf: Just what we need…more ugly storage places Robert Boston: One cannot make this putrid lurid crap of Navarre worse…and then it happens, an elected rep asks HIS appointed rep to back up his request to change zoning for profit and against the very plan they SPENT TAXPAYERS $ ON Nick Bibbins: Can we […]

Congress just voted to spend $1.3 trillion of OUR money on a bill they didn’t even have time to read. I am proud to see that my congressman, Rep. Matt Gaetz, took a stand for sanity and voted ‘No.’ I heard House Speaker Ryan say that the bill was good for the military. I totally support […]

Does society have people that conspire against another person or persons to get a desired result? In the 2012 elections Harry Reid said Mitt Romney didn’t pay his taxes creating a false type of democrat conspiracy which Harry later admitted it (a lie) was used to re-elect Obama. Obama was caught on an open mic saying […]

Little did I realize when recruited as a volunteer to get us a new hospital how blessed I would be to receive excellent care at SRMC more than once!