Jan 23, 2013
ANOTHER VIEW: Do we want Crestview to be a carbon copy?
We received a nice email last week from a reader who recently arrived in town from a larger South Florida city. She raised a familiar concern I have sometimes heard since I arrived in Crestview in 20…
Jan 16, 2013
MY VIEW: Can school resource officers really help?
In the past several weeks — following 26 deaths in the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Newtown, Conn. — there has been outcry for more protective measures in our schools.
Jan 16, 2013
EDITOR'S DESK: School resource officer additions raise questions
Amid discussions on mental health and potential gun control is a solution that ostensibly brings security straight to schools in the form of a uniformed officer.
Jan 9, 2013
EDITOR'S DESK: Live well in 2013; eat healthy and save money
Recently, the News Bulletin reported that nearly two-thirds of Okaloosa County adults are overweight or obese, according to county health department records.
Jan 2, 2013
EDITOR'S DESK: Nation's gun control debate has no easy answer
The Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Newtown, Conn., struck a chord with America.
Dec 18, 2012
EDITOR'S DESK: Examining the possible roots of mass violence
It’s difficult to comprehend a tragedy like Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Ct.
Dec 12, 2012
EDITOR'S DESK: Hate speech, confusion factors in parade fallout
Vigilante justice and widespread confusion comprised public debate following the Main Street Crestview Association’s unusually negative Christmas parade. A preacher who denied Santa Claus’ existence …
Dec 5, 2012
EDITOR'S DESK: ‘Blessed are the Children’ who attended parade
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, being damned from a truck at the town Christmas parade… Wait, that’s not how the song goes…
Nov 21, 2012
EDITOR'S DESK: Be grateful for America and our freedoms
This Thanksgiving, 18,500 former Hostess Brands staffers may have less to give thanks for after stubbornness in union negotiations with the manufacturer of Twinkies and other snack foods led to the c…
Nov 12, 2012
MY VIEW: In support of Warriors Hall
Nov. 3, a gathering of Crestview citizens and a number of folks from our “sister city” in France attended a program of classic orchestral melodies of the 1940s and ’50s in Warriors Hall.