Category: Letters to the Editor

In the December 6 county commission agenda packet, the North Florida Economic Development Partnership has a request for a $150,000 grant from state taxpayers. The request lists the amount local governments have paid in (Jefferson was $1,473), and then on…

Dear Mr. Sparkman, On behalf of our administrative staff and teachers at Jefferson K-12 Somerset School, I want to thank you for donating $3299 to help with our teacher and student positive incentive programs. This year our school’s theme is…

So what happened to cause all the problems we had? Well for one thing, Broward County found 75,000 new ballots that had been lost somehow, somewhere. Well now, I thought that strange so I did a little math. A ream…

Dear Editor: The picture of thousands of invaders trying to forcefully get into America is frightful. Especially to those living along the border with Mexico. For years, many have had their homes invaded, by much smaller groups than the present-day…

I would like to introduce you to a dear friend of mine. Her name is April Haas. For the last several days she has taken her time to volunteer to help the fire victims in California on her phone. She…

Last week as my wife and I went to early vote we were asked by the election officials to produce a valid id, we used our Fl drivers license. We also were asked to fill out a form listing our…

Thank you to all public services organizations I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to the organizations that worked around the clock to help keep our Keystone County prepared, re-operating and safe from Hurricane Michael. Organizations included first…

An Armistice is an agreement to stop all fighting, in other words a truce. The truce I write of was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month ending World War I in 1918 to…

For over 34 years, my wife and I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area – prime earthquake territory, and we lived through a bunch of them, including the massive Loma Prieta Earthquake on October 17, 1989. In early 2015,…

I had always been a registered democrat, yet never politically involved. Prior to the 2016 primary presidential election, I changed my party affiliation to republican, to vote for “my” candidate. For several years leading up to the 2016 primary, I listened to…