Opinion Archive

“Spotlight” winning best picture this week at the Oscars is a testament to the hard work of local investigative reporting that should be occurring everywhere. We know we are committed to the calling of investigative journalism at Navarre Press. If you see people squirming after a story it’s because we have hit a nerve. And, we saw them squirm on social media this week. We appreciate investigative journalism and feel it is our responsibility even though it involves a lot of time and effort – and we get a lot of grief. However, we are very responsible with the information we gather. We have been told on several occasions that we uncovered more than the subjects of our articles even knew themselves.

The organizing principle of my public service is Constitutional liberty. If government constrains itself to the Constitution, free markets, free enterprise and free people can thrive. Otherwise, we get catastrophic consequences such as ObamaCare, lawless executive orders and a government that (often corruptly) picks winners and losers.

It’s time the car and homeowners are held responsible for break-ins to unlocked cars and homes. Charges by Law Enforcement for “Aiding and Abetting” might be “wake-up calls.”

That was your best raw-reporting that I remember reading. It was accurate and showed the background of the Water System and how it relates today. At a minimum, the culture still exists through the proxy ballot and the administrator providing free health care (premiums and deductibles) for all the employees and their families. There still seems to be a lack of control between the administrator and board. God only know the back-door deals and the jobs still given via the good-old-boy system.

Tallahassee wants to provide “historic” school spending by continuing to play Tallahassee’s trick on taxpayers.

You might think that Florida’s system of financing education is simple: Your property taxes pay for the schools in your county. It’s not that simple.

I haven’t read anything about what EXACTLY is wrong with the Court House. I went for jury duty.  I was hoping the temperature inside would be comfortable, it was. I wanted the seats to be comfortable, they were.  And  I wanted the bathrooms to work, they did.  So what EXACTLY is wrong with the Court House?

The Destin Fort Walton Beach Airport welcomes Allegiant to the airport.  They are now offering nonstop service to St. Louis and Cincinnati.   Visit www.FlyVPS.com for more information.

This legislative session may be the most opportune time in years to eliminate red-light cameras in Florida altogether.

The Presidential Preference Primary Election will be held on March 15th.   Absentee ballots are now available. Any registered and qualified voter may vote an absentee ballot. In addition, all members of the Armed Forces, their family members and members of the Merchant Marine and their family members, who are U.S. citizens, may vote absentee. For more information on overseas absentee voters (UOCAVA), please visit the Federal Voting Assistance Program website at www.fvap.gov.

Some of you may have noticed that the list of people arrested in our paper has grown considerably.  This is not necessarily a reflection of an increase in crime in our area, although we are hearing more reports of crime in Navarre.  The real reason the list has grown is because the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is no longer providing the addresses of people arrested.  In the past, we have only included people arrested from Navarre or Gulf Breeze.  Because we don’t know where the people being arrested are from, we have to include everyone that is arrested in Santa Rosa County.