Opinion Archive

Do you have friends on social media who forward “fun” online surveys to their entire friend list? The surveys ask things like, “List the states you have visited” or “Which of the following have you done: Skydive? Gotten a tattoo? Rode a motorcycle?”

Maybe I missed the memo. Maybe I was left off the press release list that was sent out by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Or maybe I just need to clean out my email because an important one from the FHSAA is buried under the rubble of other emails that include requests for your checking account number so that you can have $100,000 deposited into your bank today.

The one thing every business needs is customers, and they are in short supply in Gulf Breeze. Editor Wendy Victora Rudman spent time there last week and talked to a number of business owners struggling to survive. They are not asking for charity, just business. Do it for yourself, not them. It is important to Santa Rosa County and to all of us that we remain vital before and after the bridge reopens.

Michael Carter takes the handoff and starts heading up the field, thinking for a moment about running inside before cutting to the outside and running untouched into the end zone.

I am basically inept when it comes to home repairs. Admitting it has kept me out of the emergency room and has, on occasion, paid some tradesman’s mortgage.

One time, I tried to change out an exhaust fan in a bathroom. An easy job, right? I was glad that I had read the instructions because I learned to shut off the circuit breaker to avoid electrocution.

After spending my first nine years of education in a small Catholic school, I had an eclectic stew of information about moms.

As a sportswriter, I’m always looking for something. I always need something.

I am a coffee snob, I admit it, I like coffee! I like the smell of coffee. I like the taste of coffee. I like sitting in a coffeeshop with a good cup of coffee chatting with a friend, or just watching the world go by. So, I was disappointed to discover that there is no Starbucks or Caribou Coffee or any other familiar coffee chain represented in Navarre.

The 2019 Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday begins tomorrow – Friday, May 31 and ends Thursday, June 6. During this sales tax holiday period, qualifying items related to disaster preparedness are exempt from sales tax. The sales tax holiday does not apply to:

While our friends to the east are still reeling from Hurricane Michael of October 2018, making landfall as a category 5 storm, it is the beginning of another season. While it seems the 2018 season just ended, the 2019 season is starting. Included in this issue is a Hurricane Preparedness Guide with new storm names and predictions. Read it. Follow directions. Be prepared.