Editorials
- Cut Bait
- Time has arrived for the Board of County Commissioners to smell the coffee and stop using public money to carry the water for a local developer.
On Jan. 22 the First District Court of Appeals denied a rehearing on an appellate decision regarding... Full story
- Bitter Sweets
- As he assumed the chairmanship of the Board of County Commissioners two weeks ago, Commissioner Carmen McLemore declared he was not going to preside over another year of raising taxes.
As opposed to, say, the years over which he has helped expand... Full story
- We’re Talking Candy
- County commissioners last week got in something of a lather about candy – it has to be something – and further demonstrated to what extent entitlement rules in the offices at the county courthouse and its annex.
The issue was an invoice... Full story
- Counting the Clock
- Beginning on the front page of this week’s paper we begin the countdown to the opening of the Sacred Heart Hospital of the Gulf Coast.
This idea, to count down the weeks and days until the March 15 opening, came from members of the community... Full story
- New Year’s Wishes
- If you can’t quite get used to writing “2010” on those checks yet, chances are you haven’t yet settled in for a new year.
Each turn of the calendar brings plenty of resolve, to make changes within and without.
Those... Full story
- Costs of Engagement
- Hometown Democracy? Gulf County could use a dose.
While county commissioners rail against a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that would put all land use issues before voters, they act as if that is precisely what this commission needs... Full story
- Goodbye and Good Riddance: 2009
- One common theme for this year’s end is apparent as the days tick down – 2010 surely must be better.
This has been a roller coaster year by anybody’s measurement and a year that maybe needs a new yardstick.
As with the front page... Full story
- Seasonal Tidings
- The old adage about kids saying the darnedest things is on full display in the back section of this newspaper.
There children have submitted their letters to Santa Claus, providing soft instructions about their hopes for the Christmas ahead.
There... Full story
- Tourist Development Chaos
- Would anybody still want the job?
That might be one reaction to any candidate who observed last week’s county commission meeting at which the appointment of a new Tourist Development Council executive director to replace Paula Pickett, who... Full story
- Stopped Clocks
- Let’s put this time zone question to bed.
Nothing is going to change in the county, regardless the results of a non-binding referendum next year.
The referendum will ask voters a two-part question, in short whether the county should unify... Full story
