Opinion Archive

House Bill 1035, sponsored by Representative Jayer Williamson, needs to be defeated. It is merely a thinly veiled attempt to hamstring an aggrieved community’s ability to exercise the right of home rule.

Communities need this when the other means of redress have failed to achieve what many in the community feel is inequitable governance.

After violent storms like those in early January, there are discussions about the trees which have fallen. Too many times the trees in question have landed on a home or another structure which resulted in damage.

Frequently water and laurel oaks are the culprits. They are commonly found in the area and with shallow roots these large trees have a relatively short life span.

“It’s over already? That was short!” said 4-year-old Killian after a recent Sunday service at COMPASS Church.

Out of the mouth of babes! Most often, the variable in the service’s length is the length of my sermon, and such was the case that Sunday.

You typically don’t see teams win games by such a wide margin that people who see the score question if it’s real or not.

That happened to be the case for Navarre’s girls basketball team, however, in its game against Escambia earlier this month.

I’m not always the sharpest technological pencil in the pack, so it took me a while to catch on to the fact that the ads appearing on my Facebook newsfeed were not just randomly things I liked. Like a long while. Years, in fact.

I just thought of it as one of the little miracles of life that the ads that I saw were often for things I actually sought or had thought of buying.

Do Santa Rosa County residents know where their tax money is going?

Every year the county government publishes a budget for the public to see. Within this budget you’ll see where tax revenue is spent.

People seem surprised when I show up at meetings. I’m on the board of the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation and have been on the board for more than 10 years.

When I walked in yesterday, they seemed surprised. They thought I wouldn’t be able to make it with the addition of two new papers.

My obsession with coffee had me driving to a market in Pensacola for a specific, locally roasted coffee when a myriad of coffee products is available around the corner.

As I entered the coffee aisle, my access to the bean dispensers was blocked by a bewildered couple in conversation with another customer who occasionally pointed to the dispensers in answer to their questions.