Editorials
- The Election
- Sometimes when voters speak it can be with a mighty roar.
So it was Tuesday when voters turned from office the two longest-serving members of the Board of County Commissioners.
The losses by Commissioners Billy Traylor and Nathan Peters, Jr. &ndash... Full story
- Consolidating Numbers
- Who could have conceived two, three, five or even 10 years ago that the Board of County Commissioners would be setting the tempo for holding the line on property taxes in the county?
That is pretty much what happened two weeks ago when the county se... Full story
- Dollars and Sense
- Last week witnessed two radically different approaches to budgeting for the coming year and two voices that taxpayers can only hope will be heard consistently during the budget process to come for local taxing authorities.
During a meeting last week... Full story
- Miles to Go
- Melissa Dean’s front page story concerning county commissioners and travel budgets is worth further exploration on several fronts.
Change the Law
State lawmakers should change a law that elevates elected officials above those in the private s... Full story
- Protecting the Bay
- After more than 80 days the county is still begging.
More than two months after requesting the fiscal support for booming operations in St. Joseph’s Bay the county remains without a plan it truly wants, or at least a plan that meets the fundin... Full story
- Independence Day
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A recent poll of teens found that most surveyed identified with traits such as “courage” and “perseverance” as the highest prized when pondering the Fourth of July.
Some 235 years since a group of men gathered in a swelteri... Full story
- Budget Practicalities
- When he requested that the Board of County Commissioners ask the state to open scallop season early County Commissioner Warren Yeager cited this as a unique year, given the Deepwater Horizon oil leak.
Given the leak, opening the season for scallop h... Full story
- The Campaign Issue
- As two county commissioners again abstained last week from a vote pertaining to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, they underscored the need for county voters to have their county back.
All of it.
As it is, voters in Gulf County have one-fifth of the ... Full story
- Conflicted Commissioners
- For all the “fingers on the pulse of the people” balderdash that escapes the mouths of county commissioners they sure can be a tone deaf lot.
This was on wrenching display last week as two county commissioners worked with and collected p... Full story
- Perspective
- As this is written the news on the oil leak in the gulf has slightly improved for Gulf County.
British Petroleum has managed to place a tube inside one wellhead and reduced the flow of oil directly into the Gulf of Mexico by about 18-20 percent, acc... Full story
