Ausley sponsors bill clarifying rights of foster youths
Florida Senate subcommittee unanimously passed Sen. Loranne Ausley’s bipartisan bill, which aims to codify a de facto bill of rights for children and young adults under the state’s …
Legislators back vote to enlarge Alligator Point water district
It went by in the blink of an eye, and it signaled that the Alligator Point Water Resources District will soon have a right to expand its boundaries.
At a brief delegation hearing held Monday
Dr. Holmes was always the last resort
Phil Early is one of my all-time favorite people. I used to yell at him to get a move on it coming out of the chutes on endless afternoons at football practice an eon or two ago. He
A date which will live in infamy
December 7, 1941. “A date which will live in infamy,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it. The attack’s 80th anniversary is this month.
Infamy. Webster’s Dictionary defines infamy as: “evil
It’s A Wonderful Life earns its wings
Last weekend, if you wanted to view a classic-heartwarming Christmas movie, you could watch, perhaps for the umpteenth time, the Frank Capra classic Its A Wonderful Life, about how a goofy angel, in a bid to win his wings, comes to earth to address the holiday woes of a despondent George Bailey in the small town of Bedford Falls.
Dr. Oz quacks the code of Republican politics
Sean Parnell, the Trump-anointed candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, dropped out of the race a week ago after a custody hearing that featured lurid details of his relationship with his ex-wife.
Lost generation of entrepreneurs
In the view of the American left, we should strive for the much more desirable system of socialism. You know, a type of socialism that has never worked, anywhere in the world. But the kind that only
City backs creation of Black history museum
By summer of 2023, Apalachicola could have a museum devoted to African-American history and culture, provided a state grant for funding come through. At a special meeting Monday evening, city commissioners voted unanimously to devote $250,000 in matching monies to the project, which is seeking a $1 million African-American Cultural and Historical grant from the…
When I was 12 or so: Petty theft and rocket science
My original title for this column was Garage Mechanics. I decided that might be misleading, as Ive never been good with my hands. When I enlisted in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve at age 20, the battery of tests included one on mechanical aptitude. There were a lot of pictures of tools to identify and…
Time to be a Maccabee
I am perplexed as to how I found a plastic menorah at a garage sale in Eastpoint. How had it found its way there? It was likely not from a Jewish home. This I based not on any official U.S. Census calculation, but entirely on supposition. Trust me here, Jews have a way of knowing…