The boiling frog effect With more and more states and cities mandating face mask requirements, we are finding more and more of our freedoms slowly being taken away. While the “maskers” are…
Category: Editorials
Emerald’s Gem Box…You are what comes out of your mouth
In life, sometimes, we all tend to get caught up with our own emotions and problems and we seem to let those emotions run our lives. Especially in the times we are…
Emerald’s Gem Box… I’m not a normal woman
The other day a friend and I were discussing yard work, planting flowers and crafts (and the fact that I do not like to do any of those things) and she brought…
Emerald’s Gem Box: I hear voices
There’s a country song named “Voices” that explains how he (the singer) walks around hearing voices in his mind. The voices are from his parents and grandparents and the lessons that they…
Reporter’s Corner: All good things someday come to an end
“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh) I can remember exactly where I was when I got the text from…
Emerald’s Gem Box…Your input matters to us
Too many times in life we get caught up in our “own world” and we forget the importance of the thoughts and ideas of others. We are all guilty of this, from…
Reporter’s Corner: Dirt road dust in my DNA
Ashley Hunter ECB Publishing, Inc. Earlier this week, I was driving down a dusty dirt road on my way home. The mixture of red clay and sand sent my little red car…
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Heritage or Hate? So much controversy these last few weeks. . . Riots, looting, and now killings…killings of small children. So many people wanting to take down monuments and change street names….
Reporter’s Corner: Don’t mask me
I fully anticipate getting angry responses from this column; these days, saying you don’t agree with the “must wear a mask” requirements is taken as if I had said “I support a…
From the Sunny Side: Nature shows
I have always liked nature shows on television. Somehow listening to Richard Attenborough tell me about elephants on the Serengeti plains makes me feel more intelligent. It must be the British dialect….
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God answers prayers Prayer works!!! I’ve always been someone who prayed all my “thanks” to God but never really prayed my “needs” to God. For the last several months, I have been…
Reporter’s Corner: Things my father taught me
My dad has taught me many things, such as riding a bike, how to bait a worm or cricket onto a hook for fishing (although, I hate touching crickets, so I still…
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I support Trump AND I’m a Christian I am sick and tired of news articles, broadcasts and people on social media telling me that I am less of a Christian for being…
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Guess what news you have missed? If you watch television or read your big city newspapers, all the news coverage, for months, has been about the coronavirus, and here lately, more about…
Reporter’s Corner: Speak less, love more
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of…
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Children learn what they live When I was a child on through my teenage years, a scroll hung in my bedroom (on my closet door) with a nice saying on it. I…
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Is America still free? Let me start this column out by saying, “The coronavirus is real!” COVID-19 is a real virus that sickens some; proves fatal to others, mostly the elderly; and…
Reporter’s Corner: Boomerang kindness
I enjoy penning handwritten letters. I know it’s been practically outmoded with the prevalence of emails, texts, phone calls and social media, but I feel as though a handwritten letter (even if…
Ramblings of an Old Cuban: Fear has paralyzed our economy
Long lines…rationed items…scarcity…lockdowns…business closures…restricted travel…prohibited gatherings…school closures…limited worship…on hold medical procedures…lying and divisive journalism…government infringement…mass unemployment…innocent people jailed on false accusations…citizens arrested because they went to work to pay their bills…no, I’m…
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Wanna hear something good? Despite being in the media industry and writing for a newspaper…I don’t actually subscribe to very many newspapers. Occasionally, I will pick up the Tallahassee Democrat from the…
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