Columns
Be like Robert
Last week, Heaven received a new angel as my great-uncle Robert Napier passed away. Uncle Robert was the…
Guest columns
More meals on the taxpayers
Do you remember my Feb. 4 column (“A back room lunch with the supervisors”) disclosing our supervisors spent…
Guest columns
The courthouse: Not too late to ‘get it right’
Five years ago we hoped that Charlotte County would make history. We would show how a rural county…
Guest columns
Board members, staff aren’t politicans
I can’t help but to respond to last week’s guest columnist Kay Pierantoni, her thoughts on local government…
Guest columns
Are you listening to us?
Following are the comments I delivered during the public comment period at the Charlotte County Board of Supervisors…
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Hemp can help
The history of cannabis prohibition, specifically in the United States, represents a manifold of hypocrisies plaguing our nation…
Columns
Not going to pay
I went to work at the Department of Social Services in 1970. After a few years, due to…
Guest columns
Lower the county tax rate
Is the proposed fiscal year 2017 tax rate too high? How much do the supervisors really get paid?…
Guest columns
‘Support your local newspapers’
I totally agree that citizens need to know what happens in government at all levels. I also realize…