Opinion Archive

She walks along the same path every time she takes her daily walk.  She is 76 years old, not as active as she use to be and she lives alone.  Cooking for one is a challenge so her nutrition suffers because of it.  She has lost weight.  Yet, every day she takes a walk: just a stroll down her street and around the block. 

Congrats to the Navarre High School Raider Football Team for making it to the final four. They play Lake Gibson High School Braves Friday night in Navarre. The team will be traveling from Lakeland which means there be a lot of visitors in our area for the game. The next and final game will be in Orlando at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Camping World Stadium.

I hope this issue finds you home with your family and/or loved ones this Thanksgiving season. We all have a lot for which to be thankful.

We experimented with socialism and crony capitalism during the last 16 years and the results were not pretty. The globalist elite became wealthier and the average citizen became poorer. It is time to take our nation back! I pray, with God’s help we will move toward the country we used to be with opportunity for all. Through history all democracies have failed because the citizens discover they can vote themselves benefits. We in the USA have been in decline and we must reform our government. The professional politicians must go! The road to recovery will be difficult but doable with good leadership. We must come together and be prepared to sacrifice for the benefit of our country.

To paraphrase an old saying; Give a kid a toy and they might play for an afternoon … but, teach a kid to build a robot and they might change the world forever.

What began with the Brexit in the UK last June has spilled over to America in the wake of the nation electing Donald Trump as president.  People are wearing safety pins to make a silent statement that the groups of people who feel threatened by the supposed hate and fear mongering of Trump and his supporters can feel “safe” around people wearing the pins.

Way to go Santa Rosa County voters where 68.04 percent of Santa Rosa County voters turned out to vote in the recent General Election. This participation rate has only been exceeded once and that was in the 1984 election.  See our story on Community page B1.

I would like to thank all of you in the community who took time to vote last week. I would also like to thank those of you who prayed for our country and asked God to bring us back to a constitutional government which is based on biblical principles. I praise Him for saving us from leadership which glorifies and advances what He hates and for trying to destroy what He loves. There are so many I will never be able to thank in person, but for whom I am so very grateful. As representatives of that group, I would like to mention a few very briefly in the public forum:

This week we were all broadsided by four agenda items for the Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners meeting this past Monday which was released at approximately 4:45 p.m. on Thursday afternoon leaving no time for citizens to do their homework and leading to a lot of speculation.

Please recognize all the veterans in your life for the sacrifices they make and have made to make us the greatest nation on the face of this earth.