Keyboard Klatterings
- Dissolved Debt
- Next week figures to be wet and wild for Port St. Joe city commissioners.
On Tuesday, the commission will hold a public hearing regarding a potential rate increase for water and sewer users – which at this point is much all the south end of th... Full story
- Human touch
- By Tim Croft
- Combat brigades leave Iraq last week.
A troop surge continues in Afghanistan even as the appetite for that war seems to fade at home.
Brouhaha breaks out over the construction of an Islamic Cultural Center, not a mosque, a few blocks away from Grou... Full story
- Two Days on the Water
- By Tim Croft
- Capt. Dave Mullis has been making his living on the water for some four decades.
The local charter boat captain has been working the waters off Gulf County and Mexico Beach for much of his life and has gotten pretty used to dealing with changes in l... Full story
- Riding for Education
- By Tim Croft
- A group of folks who work at a prominent regional utility decided recently they would like to get together.
They had a common love of riding motorcycles and there was the commonality of the workplace so a morning ride on a beautiful summer weekend s... Full story
- Ties Bind
- There is that old Rudyard Kipling line about keeping one’s head while all about are losing theirs that came to mind last week.
On the phone was Terri Daniel, a board member for the non-profit Blue Skies Ministries.
Daniel’s enthusiasm w... Full story
- The Fairness Doctrine
- By Tim Croft
- What a week.
Starting with last week’s county/city workshop during which a BP contractor stood up and pronounced that 100 percent of the 1,000 workers in the county responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak hailed from “North Florida.... Full story
- The World According to Oops
- By Tim Croft
- My wife and I decided to head to the beach over the weekend as a kind of Father’s Day getaway.
Provided St. Joe Beach or St. Joseph Peninsula for a few hours between loads of laundry and vacuuming could be considered either a day at the beach ... Full story
- Advancing Job Creation
- By Tim Croft
- He may not appreciate or fully agree with the label but Dr. Jim Kerley is a whirling dervish for education.
The Pied Piper of Opportunity may be a more appropriate moniker because Kerley, president of Gulf Coast Community College, not only talks the... Full story
- Holiday Theme
- By Tim Croft
- This will be a weekend of barbecues, family and good times.
For some it will mean an extra day in bed, at the beach, in front of the television.
According to forecasters, the weather outside will be delightful, with a small chance of rain and plent... Full story
- Klutz is as Klutz Does
- By Tim Croft
- There is a reason I am not allowed within a 10-foot radius of my wife’s nice tool box or that she shudders to see a hammer in my hand.
There is a reason I am only permitted to hold the television remote from time to time, providing I am not ma... Full story
