Editorials
- Sum of its Parts
- We are better together than we are alone.
Paraphrasing a bit, that statement from the dedication and blessing of a new hospital seems appropriate in a broader context.
We will move forward better as a county when the divisions of single-member... Full story
- Biomass Brush-Up
- Last week’s announcement of a petition for a legal hearing on the state permitting of a woody biomass plant in Port St. Joe was inevitable.
Despite the efforts of proponents and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to explain... Full story
- Delay Tactics
- The meter is running for county taxpayers and commissioners could apparently care less.
Despite the rhetoric since the first of the year about cost cutting and reining in spending, when it comes to actually tightening belts, county commissioners... Full story
- The 3 Percent Solution
- County commissioners have decided that saving 3 percent today might ease some fiscal headaches down the road.
Last week at the urging of commission chairman Carmen McLemore, commissioners approved an across-the-board hold back of 3 percent of... Full story
- Gulf Pines Hospital
- At some future point up the road, someone in a position to make a decision will have to make one about Gulf Pines Hospital.
The question of ownership of the building and land on which it sits in the middle of Port St. Joe remains murky, at best,... Full story
- FCAT Fever
- During the coming weeks public school administrators, teachers, students and their parents will undergo their annual stress test known as the FCAT.
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test is anything but.
School accountability is a valid... Full story
- 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
