Category: Letters to the Editor

School officials secretly met with a female student at Deerlake Middle School, Leon County, Tallahassee, Florida without parents’ knowledge or consent. The school officials secretly created a transgender support plan for the…

Bless his heart! I read Representative Jason Shoaf’s column in the Monticello News paper “Government Mandates” about how bad Biden’s vaccine mandates are. He really should have talked to his mother before…

With another Veteran’s Day approaching, our thoughts turn to those who willingly sacrificed their own well-being for ours. For some Veterans, the physical and mental sacrifice is permanent and on-going. It’s an…

Today marks my 60th Thanksgiving, having arrived at the greatest country ever in 1961. I am grateful to all Americans, the most generous people in the world. I have friends on the…

At the September 16 county commission meeting, Chairman Walker indulged me by allowing an item to be moved from the consent agenda (where there is no discussion) to the main agenda so…

I’ve spent the last 40 years fighting crime in Madison County with badge and book. I’ve arrested people when I had to, but I prefer teaching trades and other paths to lawful…

I wasn’t born here, but I am passionate about our country. Why? After all, it didn’t give me a free education; it didn’t give me free medical care; it didn’t give me…

I am the guy who said our local conspiracy theorist (LCT) was cherry picking data and he did it to you again. LCT uses numbers and formulas to make his points it…

I am writing this in response to the allegation of “cherry picked” data in my recent letter as to why masks do not work. Like the prior personal attack, I’m also used…

It has been two decades since the horrific deadly terrorist attack on the New York World Trade Center’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania flight attempts, that killed so many people in…

This is another ECB article that affected me personally. Approaching four-scores this story led me to thinking how trivial many young people feel about senior citizens (old folk). Too often I have…

I read with interest Mr. Henry’s misinformation about medical preventatives by a physics professor, excuse me, a former professor. The university at which he worked fired him years ago. Reading the essay…

I read the Letter to the Editor “Masks Don’t Work” citing a paper written by a Canadian physicist Denis Rancourt. I decided before I looked up Rancourt I would read the paper,…

Carrie White Boon Assembly (CWBA) #331 Order of the Golden Circle operates under the auspices of the Fred Alexander Grand State Assembly and Florida Council of Deliberation – PHA, working out of…

Over the past few months, I have been talking with groups of people in small-town North Florida about the impacts of climate change and how they might get involved in resiliency efforts….

In the current and ongoing perhaps never ending COVID crisis, many elected and unelected people in authority are pushing the mask mandate as the means of salvation. Our Governor is a notable…

I really enjoyed the play ‘Don’t Trash Your Mother Earth’ that was featured at the Monticello Opera House recently. It was an excellent children’s musical about climate control and protecting our natural…

At 10:00 am on April 10, 2021 I gathered with others at a rural cemetery in Jefferson County to say goodbye to Robert Michael Purvis, DVM of Monticello, Florida. Coming up a…

We now have an entrepreneur from South Florida that has decided to change Monticello into a “South Florida community.” People are continually coming to Monticello from South Florida because of the calming…

“For the Long Haul…” was a saying that I recently saw on a local billboard advertising personal injury lawyers. To me, “for the long haul” evokes feelings of commitment, integrity, strength, and…