Feb 14, 2019
Speak Out: Press Gazette readers' calls
Here are featured comments from our Speak Out hotline. I just read the letter by Raymond Johns. All he does forever is talk about how sorry all white people are. If someone wrote you a letter like that talking about black poeple that you wouldn’t even print it. He throws stuff out like how the […]
Feb 11, 2019
Outer space successes should inspire Earth
Outer space is alive with the work of scientists, who monitor extraordinarily complex ships of exploration. These vehicles are probing ever farther within and beyond our solar system, the planets inc…
Feb 3, 2019
Bonds sometimes last a lifetime
Bonds between two people or groups may be formed in many different ways and for many different reasons, or for no reason at all. A feeling of a bond may be from one side and not a real bond. However,…
Jan 28, 2019
South Korea confirms democracy – and international leadership
The global news media continue to devote rapt attention to the at times acrimonious, occasionally friendly, interchange between two flamboyant leaders. United States President Donald Trump and North …
Jan 4, 2019
Speak Out: Press Gazette readers' calls
Here are featured comments from our Speak Out hotline. LIMITED VISIBILITY "They need to trim those bushes in the road there on 90 because my friend had to go almost into the road to see traffic coming. We were at the Shrimp Basket. " PAULINE GRIMES We welcome Santa Rosa County residents’ comments on local […]
Dec 11, 2018
Dec 7, 2018
Hold out for the light
Dec.10 marks the end of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights.
Hanukkah is centered on a story set in the second century BCE, during a siege of the Second Jewish Temple by the Syrians. …
Nov 14, 2018
1968: Elections then and now
Perspective through examination of history is always helpful, as long as we perceive the past accurately. Extreme, overwrought rhetoric has now become commonplace, within the media as well as from po…
Oct 19, 2018
Remember Cuban Missile Crisis lessons
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred more than a half century ago, but the lessons of that unique and terrifying event in the Cold War continue to resonate. If anything, contemporary complacency about t…
Oct 5, 2018
Public servants and the public good
General George C. Marshall is what people used to call a dedicated public servant. As Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, he did essential work to get a dangerously unprepared America at least partially…