Opinion Archive

As Navarre running back coach and head track coach Tony Carter always says, you have to expect greatness.

And that was the expectation I took into the Florida Press Association’s awards luncheon two weeks ago in Sarasota.

Having attended several BOCC meetings and following the news media, I have come to the conclusion the BOCC acts consistently in support of developers.

I do not think so, but your federal government believes you are stupid because they think you cannot tell when they are lying to you. Most issues expressed by the government are lies.

Blue is a color which usually has negative or depressing connotations and implications. For example, people feeling depressed or out-of-sorts, are said to have the blues.

Blues singers always have a sad song about love lost or some other gloomy situation beyond the control of the person suffering through the unhappiness and indignities.

You might have heard a Christian say, “God will never give us more than we can handle.”

I was visiting a Christian friend in the hospital who had terminal cancer. He had been through much and much more lay ahead of him, yet he was remarkably upbeat.

A lot can happen in a week as this last week proves. While Navarre Press, including most of its editorial staff was in Sarasota for the Florida Press Association’s annual meeting, four new Holley by the Sea board members were selected.

Any reasonable person who has watched or attended any County Commissioner’s meeting lately has to be appalled. What once was a civil, polite, even gentrified meeting has now turned into a free-for-all.

There’s a photo of Michael Sandle standing in a conference room in the Houston Astros’ headquarters. He is wearing an Astros jersey, his dad is standing at his side and there is a contract on the table.

He is living the dream most never get a shot at, and he didn’t get there by accident.

Once in a while, I remember to play.

What came so naturally to us as children is less obvious to our aging adult bodies and sensibilities. We have been conditioned to focus on dignity, task completion, responsibility and worrying what people will think about us.

The recent stormy weather, with all its potential problems, has focused many Santa Rosa County residents on alternative tools for a variety of uses to keep civilization at hand. In some cases, gasoline powered engines are necessary to achieve a level of 21st century comfort.