We listen to the residents who speak at the county commission meetings. Growth is an issue. Maybe growth is THE issue. We want the residents to be informed about development and how it works.

We reported in October 2023 that Okaloosa County Board of Commissioners approved spending up to $1 million for a “North Planning Study” to help guide growth in the unincorporated area north of the Eglin Air Force Base reservation. The bid for the project was awarded to Inspire Placemaking Collective out of Orlando. We hope the residents of north Okaloosa are inspiring Inspire to take a measured approach.

For Christians around the world, Easter represents a time of renewal, and a time of remembrance of the death of Jesus and his resurrection. However you choose to celebrate Easter, whether it is in Church or in your backyard hunting for Easter eggs or both, we at Navarre Press wish you a day of renewal. Consider it perhaps a transfiguration of sorts; a shedding of whatever is old and stale and an embrace of new things, habits and ideas.

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.

There is a bill on the Governor’s desk waiting to be signed. The state House gave final approval to a bill that would harden self-defense claims for people who kill bears on their property. The bill strictly spells out the restrictions of shooting a bear but does leave the door open for people who do. Summarily, the bill says people would not be penalized for killing bears if they “reasonably believed that his or her action was necessary to avoid an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to himself or herself or to another, an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to a pet or substantial damage to a dwelling.”

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.

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.

Sixty minutes reported, on Sunday evening February 3, about a gap in our border wall. The gap is reported to be about sixty miles east of San Diego and is a global destination for migrants from around the world. The news source reported that during a four day watch they personally witnessed about 600 illegal entries come through the small gap.

Being snowed in for the last week, we watched a lot of documentaries. CNN did a series on the 60’s through the 2000’s by decade. It struck me as sad to see the way America could once trust the news.  But even CNN admitted that somewhere in the 1980’s, that all changed.