Opinion Archive

I made it to the gym at Gulf Breeze shortly before 9 p.m. on a Friday night, barely an hour removed from watching Navarre’s girls basketball team hold off Pace in a thrilling district championship game in girls basketball.

And now it was time for some boys basketball, the final game for me of a busy week of covering sports.

WHY do we need another Dollar General/ Store??

And on an already busy residential road, East Bay Blvd/Hwy 399?

I am thoroughly disgusted by both of the major political parties in the United States of America. 

Since 2008, they both have been locked in a battle for domestic power that has significantly weakened our dominance in the rest of the world. 

National signing day has come and gone and once again there is no shortage of talent. Navarre, Pace, Milton, Crestview. All have athletes who are headed to the next level.

That chance to play a ciollege sport is a dream for every athlete. Heck, I used to have that dream. I just didn’t have the talent to match it.

Do you wonder why our society is being attacked from within?

Why does our federal government promote division, hate and society destruction?

My first achievement for the new year was to get COVID. It first made its presence known with a scratchy throat on Tuesday of that first week.

The next morning, it unpacked its bags for a lengthy stay gifting me with what felt like a deluxe cold, the premium version with all the accessories: cough, congestion, headache, fever. I assumed it was only a bad cold.

Classic mystery novels usually open with a set of unexplained occurrences that pique the curiosity of the protagonist.

The clues frequently, but not always, lead to a malicious event that leaves only the disconnected evidence available for identifying the perpetrator.

When my children were small, we spent most of our free time taking them to parks. If you want to know about all the small hidden parks that were in the area 15 years ago and probably still are today, hit me up.

We even found the ones that offered little or no parking because they were intended mostly for kids in the homes around the park, whose parents could walk them over.

Community members frequently call newsrooms like ours and want us to write stories about their opinions.

They don’t phrase it that way, but the conversation starts with what they think about an issue in the community and ends with, “You should write a story about that.”