Opinion Archive

Water has been the hot topic this past week, with some Midway Water System customers finding out first that they needed to boil their water and, nearly four days later, that boiling wouldn’t fully decontaminate the water.

According to the water company officials, they didn’t cause the problem – a contractor did. But now they have to solve it and deal with hundreds of concerned and angry customers.

Years ago, I enjoyed a short career as a professional musician, a choice that took me in an unexpected direction.

I had been working at an animation studio in Toronto churning out Scooby Doo cartoons for Saturday morning consumption.

It’s a great time to be driving around, with so many local churches and organizations selling pumpkins to brighten up the season.

When I was a child, we thought we were being creative when we left a tooth or two in our pumpkin’s crooked carved grin. The eyes and nose were triangles. The slippery goo in the middle turned my stomach a little bit.

Glory doesn’t come easy in sports. It takes hard work and patience. Determination and a little luck never hurt either.

The Navarre Raider volleyball team understood as much heading into the 2021 season. The players knew back in the summer if they were going to take a trip on the road to glory, they were going to have to embrace every high and low along the way.

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.