Opinion Archive

I was born and raised in a land of shade, with trees towering over our front yard and an acre of woods behind our house.

In Illinois, trees were as common as cockroaches are in Florida. And those trees weren’t distant cousins of the Christmas trees we cut down each year.

“A penny saved is a penny earned” is the famously frugal advice from Poor Richard’s Almanac.

The author Benjamin Franklin, elder statesman and founding father of the United States, offered this simple pearl of wisdom to 18th century American.

Commissioner James Calkins has ideas on how to fix the county’s stormwater problems.

They include listening to the ideas of the current Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) volunteer taskforce which, by the way, have been looking at stormwater issues for many years.

As venders at the flea market we have been notified to vacate the market by Nov. 10.

Our last business day will be Oct. 31.

As many … have pointed out, our area lacks the willingness and ability to enforce rules and the law.  Clean water, sustainable growth, maintaining the food chain aren’t priorities in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.

The Home Builders Association of Northwest Florida and its past president worked with the task force in revising the land development code (LDC). 

One word that I would never use to describe myself is “athletic.” I played baseball in a municipal league in my youth, but I hung up my cleats and became a musician.

So, it was strange that, some 20 years later, I would be standing on a basketball half-court, about to go three-on-three against teenagers half my age. I have no recollection of how that absurdity came to be.

Winning was the only option for the Navarre Raider football team on Friday night.

Anything less than victory over Pace simply wouldn’t have been good enough. Not with the Raiders sitting three spots below the Patriots in the latest regional rankings.

In early 2019 a man named Jonathan Cole created an organization called Navarre Area United (NAU) to incorporate Navarre. I didn’t know him, but I agreed to take charge of getting the petitions because I believed in the idea of self-governance.

A few friends and I went door to door and worked at festivals to bring in petitions.

When we name our children, we are always going for something special.

Some of us name them after family members. Some are going for old-fashioned or biblical.

Being on top is usually a good position. It is the place which denotes exceptional accomplishment and has the best view, especially of those below who are looking up in anticipation of reaching the pinnacle.

There is one genus of a native wildflower that begins its colorful display at the top, literally. The blazing stars activate its annual flowering at the top of its towering bloom spike and works its way down the green stalk.