Good day to all!
Representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Florida Floodplain Management Office will be in Charlotte County next month to host three map update meetings for residents of Charlotte County. The public is welcome to attend any of the meetings.
Can I just say that it would be incredibly sweet to see a guy who made his fortune in the news media defeat an incumbent president who has declared the news media to be the enemy of the people?
I admit to (almost) stifling a laugh when the Citrus County Commission refused to pay $2,700 so the public library could offer a New York Times subscription.
Several years back, we had a terrible outbreak of chilli thrips across the state which really did a number on plants such as plumbago. Their easy-to-care-for nature became labor-intensive and many failed in the landscape or were no longer ornamentally useful and were discarded. While chilli …
Instead of watching Fox News, which manufactures heroic propaganda about President Donald Trump, Republican voters could learn much more from seeing a few hours of Russian television. It is on shows broadcast from Moscow and St. Petersburg where the truth about the Trump administration can b…
I’m here to offer you an action list.
Have you noticed that the two parties’ fields of presidential candidates have, in the past two election cycles, grown enormously larger than (if not necessarily superior to) those in past years? Where parties used to have two to five serious candidates to choose from, Republicans had 17 in 2…
Dear Soldier,
Happy Anniversary to Florida’s Water and Land Conservation Amendment!
In many ways, I did not want to write this week’s Top Five column because it meant I had to re-read the story at #1. I really didn’t want to visit that story again because of the new, horrifying details.
In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the pending demise of Common Core (CC) in Florida, precipitating efforts by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) to derive improved Florida educational standards.
As far as I can tell from a reading of history, while some presidents were friends of clergy, who sometimes advised them, to my knowledge, none hired them as staff members. Until the presidency of Richard Nixon. It was during Nixon’s administration that Charles Colson began mobilizing the ev…
“Every generation blames the one before.” — Mike + The Mechanics
WASHINGTON — The torrent of astonishing talk from Democratic presidential aspirants has included two especially startling ideas. One is that we are going to die — the climate change crisis is "existential" — unless America does a slew of things that the aspirants know are not going to be don…
Charters and private schools are here to stay in Florida, and that’s just the way it is. That’s not a bad thing. But the rules that apply to public schools sometimes don’t apply to the other schools.
CAPTAIN CRAB’S ON A ROLL
Charlotte BMX, Charlotte County Community Services, and the Punta Gorda/Englewood Beach Visitor & Convention Bureau this week announced the return of the USA BMX Sunshine State Nationals to Charlotte County. The three-day event is scheduled for Oct. 23-25, 2020 at the Charlotte BMX track…
Groundcovers are technically plants used to blanket the soil surface that are ornamental, prevent erosion, and link other parts of the landscape together. Groundcovers can be clumping or mounding or even grow as a vine. One such vine that is colorful and functional is the ornamental sweet po…
Shortly after Jim Bakker’s release from prison in July 1994, I invited the disgraced TV evangelist to my home. There was an important question I wanted to ask him.
