Opinion Archive

Easter is coming.  With a president of the United States who could hide his own Easter eggs and throw himself a surprise party, we deserve to know one simple thing: Who’s calling the shots in the White House? It is clearly under leftist Democrat rule.

The Southeastern Conference as a generation has known it is about to change.
When the spring sport season ends in a few months, those schools I’ll never associate with the Southeastern region of the United States, Oklahoma and Texas, will be joining the league. Does it make the conference stronger? In theory, yes.

With the start of the spring sports season the final third of the academic sports year is upon us.
The next two-and-a-half months will fly by and lead to spring football, followed by graduations and the start of another summer. The cycle of life for a high school sports writer follows the academic calendar that varies very little from one school year to the next.

Lie – “an assertion of something known or believed by the speaker or writer to be untrue with intent to deceive; something that misleads or deceives.” – Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

A frequent question in Crestview: is anyone paying attention to the roads in this city?  With the parking lot on SR 85 during morning and afternoon rush hours, and other congestion on Live Oak, Old Bethel, PJ Adams, and others, this seems to be a valid question.  Hopefully, I can clear up some of the murkiness in understanding the various projects around the city. 

In Genesis 27:30-45 Jacob swindled from Isaac the birthright rightfully belonging to Esau. Jacob used guile and dishonesty, urged on by his mother, to attain what was not his to have.

Isaac was skeptical that the person before him was his eldest son. But Jacob sounded so convincing that Isaac made his decision to give the inheritance to whom he thought was Esau.

While we know the agency is embarrassed by the recent body cam footage released showing a deputy’s use of deadly force after hearing a “pop” which turned out to be an acorn hitting the roof of his car, we are hopeful the entire agency takes a deeper dive in training and the sights, sounds and smells that can lead to deadly force – and situations like this.

Never in a million years did this old Gulf Breeze Dolphin imagine I’d be writing this, but the Milton boys basketball team was thrown under the bus by the Florida High School Athletic Association last week when the region tournament was released.

I am forever losing things – keys, wallets, shoes – you name it, I can lose it. So prone am I to losing things that one year for Christmas, my wife bought me a chip that attached to my key fob that would show the location of my keys on a map on my smartphone. Great idea, but I lose things at home and the mapping feature was not that precise.

And just like that two years have passed.

Yes, it was two years ago, Feb. 14, 2022, that I returned to the job in my work life that I have enjoyed the most, writing about sports for the Crestview News Bulletin. I will always be grateful for Sandi Kemp bringing me back to the area to do what I believe God created me to do.