Opinion Archive

The City of Milton is considering a paid youth internship program this summer to give youth ages 16-20 a taste of government service.

It’s not a new idea, but it is, we believe, a great idea, one we hope Milton and more local governments will adopt.

Today you might notice a small change on the front of your newspaper that has a big meaning for us.

When Sandpaper Publishing purchased the Crestview News Bulletin and Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette from the previous owners and took over the publications at the beginning of last year, the two papers were in bad shape.

The climb to the top certainly wasn’t easy for Pace’s girls weightlifting team. There was a time where the Patriots were a long way from being a contender in the sport.

But the climb reached the pinnacle on a Saturday in Lakeland in the middle of February, with the Patriots celebrating their first state title in program history.

There’s something that has bothered me about the way Gov. Ron DeSantis does business since he took office in early 2019 and it has nothing to do with his politics.

I’ve been covering the news in Northwest Florida for close to 20 years now at different publications.

Sigh. Perhaps it was inevitable.

For a peaceful few weeks, the City of Milton’s meetings were so civil they bordered on boring – which, by the way, is not a bad thing.

A new name. A new school. The same story.

You want more than anything for the cycle of young people dying by suicide to end. There just doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.

I follow a Florida-based jazz guitarist on Facebook. I learned about him through my online search for other guitarists who play an archtop guitar made by a little-known luthier.

This guitarist has one, and we corresponded briefly about our love for these guitars. Since then, I have enjoyed the video postings of his solo performances in small clubs.

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”

Historians attribute these words, or something very like them, to several prominent thinkers, most notable Benjamin Franklin and Sir Winston Churchill. We’re proud to add Milton Mayor Heather Lindsay to that company.

It’s hard to believe I’ve been back overseeing the Crestview News Bulletin and Santa Rosa’s Press Gazette for more than two months now.

There have been some minor hiccups along the way, more on that later, but overall the job has gone better than I could have hoped.

MaxPreps has a much bigger role now in high school athletics than it once did.

That status update is the result of the FHSAA partnering up with it when it comes to calculating rankings that determines who goes and who stays home when it comes to the postseason in all sports.